California: Nuvixa, a developer of gesture-based video communication and presentation solutions has raised fund from AMD Ventures, formerly the AMD Fusion Fund program.

Founded in 2009, by Sanjay Patel, Wen-mei Hwu, Dennis Lin, Minh Do and Quang Nguyen; Nuvixa is a California based developer of superior gesture-enhanced video communication and presentation solutions for businesses, professionals and consumers.

“Being selected by AMD Ventures provides us with additional financial backing to continue to innovate, and world-class technical support that enables us to fully leverage AMD’s latest APU architecture. Together we are radically expanding what is possible with video, and offering these advanced capabilities to a vast audience of professionals, consumers and academia producing digital presentations and online video experiences for sales, training, online courses and others,” says Sanjay Patel, CEO and Co-Founder, Nuvixa.

Patel is also a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to this, he was the CTO at AGEIA Technologies, and verification engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. He also holds a degree from University of Michigan.

Nuvixa has raised $2.65 million in total funding till date, including $650,000 in seed round of funding and $2 million in venture round before this raising this round of funding.

“Nuvixa is on the cutting edge of video processing technology and exemplifies why we created AMD Ventures; to foster an ecosystem that enhances the consumer and commercial computing experience. The uniquely powerful compute capabilities of our APUs coupled with software solutions from companies like Nuvixa are bringing gesture-based computing and immersive video experiences beyond the conference room and into today’s notebook and desktop PCs, tablets and other consumer electronic devices,” says Manju Hegde, Corporate Vice President, Content, Applications and Solutions at AMD.

AMD is a semiconductor design innovator that develops computer processors and related technologies for both commercial and consumer markets. They produce primarily microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors.