{"id":62757,"date":"2019-03-21T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tarana-wireless-secures-60-million-of-follow-on-financing\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:40:26","slug":"tarana-wireless-secures-60-million-of-follow-on-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tarana-wireless-secures-60-million-of-follow-on-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarana Wireless Secures $60 Million of Follow-on Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarana Wireless<\/strong> secured $60 million of financing with <strong>Khosla Ventures <\/strong>and <strong>EchoStar<\/strong>, as a follow-on to financing of $28 million led by <strong>1010 Holdings<\/strong>, the family offices of Greg Wyler. In conjunction with the financing, EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen, Khosla Ventures Partner Samir Kaul, and OneWeb Chairman Greg Wyler joined Tarana\u2019s board of directors. Additionally, Kranti Kilaru recently stepped down from his role as Executive Vice President (EVP) of EchoStar to join Tarana\u2019s leadership team as President.<\/p>\n<p>With total financing of nearly $200 million, Tarana has created radio technology with more immunity to obstructions, interference, changing conditions, and spectrum scarcity. Tarana\u2019s fixed wireless access technology aims to improve network economics of gigabit broadband access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTarana has the lowest-cost and highest-capacity solution for suburban residential users everywhere, whether that is the US, Europe, Africa, South America, or Asia,\u201d Wyler said. \u201cTarana\u2019s access network enables mobile operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to leapfrog fiber to the home and quickly provide equivalent performance at a fraction of the cost. This is a great complement to OneWeb\u2019s rural capabilities and fits perfectly with the mission to bridge the digital divide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarana Wireless secured $60 million of financing with Khosla Ventures and EchoStar, as a follow-on to financing of $28 million led by 1010 Holdings, the family offices of Greg Wyler. In conjunction with the financing, EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen, Khosla Ventures Partner Samir Kaul, and OneWeb Chairman Greg Wyler joined Tarana\u2019s board of directors. Additionally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}