Sequans Communications, a France-based provider of fixed and mobile semiconductors, plans to raise $110m at its planned New York flotation.
Sequans posted a $2.7m loss last year on $68.5m in revenue and has investment banks UBS and Jefferies serving as co-lead underwriters of its initial public offering, according to its regulatory filing.
The company has reportedly raised more than $60m from a consortium including corporate venturing units from Motorola Solutions (which owns 1.5 million shares, 5.3%) and Alcatel-Lucent (1.1 million shares, 4%).
Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola last invested an undisclosed amount in November 2009 to fund Sequans’ Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile communications development.
Switzerland-based phone operator Swisscom and India-based Reliance ADA Group had also previously invested through their corporate venturing units in February 2008’s $28m round for Sequans. Swisscom owns 177,000 shares in Sequans, according to the regulatory filing, but more than that according to a source close to the company.
Its other investors have included venture capital firms Kennet Venture Partners, CapDecisif, i-Source Gestion, SGAM Private Equity, Add Partners, CDC, Serena Capital and Vision Capital.
Sequans had raised $9m in its series B round in 2007 as an extension to its $24m funding a year earlier. The company started in 2003.