Its November 2013 round raised $15.2m, according to a regulatory filing, a year after it had closed towards a $10m round.

Kumu Networks, a US-based wireless networks communications technology, has raised $25m in its series C round from strategic investors including Cisco Systems, Verizon Communications, Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom. Existing investors, venture capital firms NEA, Third Point Ventures and Khosla, are also reinvesting in the C round.

Its November 2013 round raised $15.2m, according to a regulatory filing, a year after it had closed towards a $5m round.

Kumu was founded in 2012 by a team of Stanford University professors and PhD graduates to commercialise research on wireless full duplex, which allows a radio to simultaneously transmit and receive overlapping signals using a single frequency channel without interference.

Its angel investors and advisers include Stanford University professors Philip Levis, Sachin Katti, Nick McKeown and Bernd Girod.

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.