Arch Rock, a fellow spin-out from the University of California, has raised their second round of funding. Arch Rock was founded by David Culler, the adviser of Rob Szewczyk and I while at UC Berkeley, and Wei Hong, a co-worker of ours from Intel Research. A number of other great UC Berkeley alumni are now at Arch Rock too.

The funding announcement comes at the end of an 8-month drought of venture investment in wireless sensor networking companies. A couple of other WSN companies are now out searching for venture capital. The Arch Rock investment shows a commitment by investors to the potential of wireless sensing and validates the necessity of other players in the WSN ecosystem.

Arch Rock is best known for their use of IP to connect from Internet networks to wireless sensor networks. Their solution eases the inter-networking of these systems, allowing users to run commands like 'ping', 'traceroute', and web services interfaces from a central gateway node. They also have spiffy webpages to access each sensor node. The system is built using TinyOS, to which both Arch Rock and Moteiv are active contributors.

The $10m Series B round supports the company's R&D product roadmap as well as sales and marketing according to the press release. The round was an internal round, with all of the Series A participants involved--NEA, Shasta, and Intel Capital. Arch Rock has raised $15m total to date.

Arch Rock's Primer Pack/IP is now shipping, which is a development kit to get started with Arch Rock's inter-networking suite. With $10m in the bank, we're excited that Arch Rock is a Moteiv customer and wish them the best of luck.

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