Twistbox Entertainment, the Sherman Oaks, Calif. company that distributes adult videos and games, has raised $19.5 million to help it extend its offering into other gaming markets.

The company’s adult offerings are placed at a different site, Waat . The Twistbox site, meanwhile, offers all other types of mobile content. The funding was led by an affiliate of ValueAct Capital and other strategic investors. The company says it distributes content across more than than 100 mobile operators in over 40 countries.

Twistbox previously raised $12.75 million from investors which included Spark Capital.

BroadLight, a supplier of “gigabit passive optical network” (GPON) semiconductors and software, said it has raised a $12 million fifth round of financing.

The round was led by Benchmark Capital, and included existing investors Azure Capital Partners, Broadcom, Cipio
Partners, Delta Ventures, Israel Seed Partners, Motorola Ventures, Star Ventures and
Tellabs.

BroadLight, of Mountain View, Calif.,  has raised about $50 million, but it is not yet profitable.

Last year, another PON company, Passave Inc, was bought by PMC-Sierra Inc. for $300 million.

Vantrix, a Montreal, Canada company that helps publishers deliver video and other data across multiple handsets via various carriers, said it has raised $12 million in a second round of financing.

An increasing number of companies are focused on the thorny problem of video and audio transmission across today’s fragmented mobile landscape — characterized by hundreds of different phones and protocols.

Competitors include Quickplay and Dynetic.

Vantrix says it has customers like AT&T, Orange, and ABC News. It is active in the U.S. and Asia, but is seeing significant demand for its services in India, it says.

In a statement, it said Chicago’s JK&B Capital led the round, and existing investors SummerHill Venture Partners (the venture arm of Bell Canada Enterprises), Entrepia Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, and Innovacom (the venture arm of France Telecom), participated.

It has now raised a total of $24.4 million.

In the statement, Manish Jha, CEO of Vantrix said: “Delivering rich media on mobile phones should not be hindered by obstacles such as the fragmentation of devices, screen sizes, codec types, content formats, media player characteristics and network incompatibility issues. Vantrix helps content providers and carriers worldwide overcome these barriers to deliver ubiquitous and compelling new mobile services to consumers.”

vSocial, a Tempe, Arizona company that provides a way for companies to host video services on their Web sites, along with social networking components, said it has raised a second round of funding.

The round was led by Phoenix-based Biltmore Ventures and previous vSocial investor Consor Capital.  vSocial had previously raised $1.5M.

  
The company says it serves companies like UPS, Disney and Fosters, but is not yet profitable.

Israeli optical communications start-up BroadLight Inc, which also has offices in Mountain View, Calif., has raised $12 million in its fifth round of financing.

Benchmark Capital led the round. Existing shareholders include Motorola Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Delta Ventures, Israel Seed Partners, Star Ventures, Cipio Partners, Broadcom Corporation and Tellabs Inc.

BroadLight has raised $50 million since 2000.

ArcSight a Cupertino, Calif. provider of software that manages security and compliance for the networks of large companies, has filed for a $74.75 million IPO.

The company broke even in the year ending April 30, on $69 million in revenues, according to its filing.

Since launching in 2002, the company has raised around $15 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (which has a 23.8 percent ownership stake), Institutional Venture Partners (11.9 percent), Integral Capital Partners (6.3 percent) and New Enterprise Associates (5.4 percent).

Omniture, which helps companies analyze their customers’ online behavior to boost revenue, has acquired San Francisco’s Offermatica for $65 million. Offermatica helps companies test different aspects of their Web sites, to see how customers respond to changes in content or other features.

Under the deal, Omniture will pay Offermatica $35 million in common stock and $30 million in cash.

Offermatica had raised a $5.1 million in a first round of capital from East Coast firm Baker Capital in 2005. Meritech Capital Partners and Accel Partners also had small stakes in the company.

Bitmicro Networks, a Fremont, Calif. maker of flash-based solid state disk and semiconductor storage products, said it has raised $9.3 million in a fifth round of funding.

The investment was led by Woodside Investments.

The company has now raised a total $31.4 million in private funding. Its products include intelligent flash IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel and SATA solid state disk (SSD) storage.

GeoSentric, an Amsterdam-based maker of geo-social networking technology, said it has secured $13.1 million in a financing round.

The financing was led by Horizon Group and Schroders Private Bank.

Here’s the statement.

The company is led by former senior executives from Netscape, Oracle and AOL/Time Warner, and it is about to launch a site called GyPSii, which remains closed.

Dan Harple, Executive Chairman of GeoSentric, said in a statement that the company combines search, location and personal content in a new form of geo-social networking; connecting people with people, with the places they frequent.

According to the statement:

GeoSentric’s flagship product is the GyPSii platform, which uses pioneering geo-location software technology to connect people to people, and people to places with new and exciting social community and location-specific services…GeoSentric develops high value solutions that deliver unique geo-based consumer and business applications that integrate a mobile user’s world with their desktop, digital television and PND devices.

VoodooVox, a New York start-up that provides advertising within phone calls, said it has raised $8.1 million in a fourth round of financing.It is led by Softbank Capital, and includes existing investors Apax Partners, Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, and Village Ventures, also participated in the round.

VoodooVox’s product is called “In-Call Media,” and it inserts ad-supported audio content into the calls of  large companies, mainly within customer service calls and the like.  The company says its technology is being used 300 million calls monthly, however that number referring to the call volume handled by its clients, and not necessarily to the number of calls where ads are actually placed.

The customers include calling card companies, 411 services, call centers, radio stations, VOIP providers, and various Voice 2.0 applications, the company says. These include IDT, Univision, Virgin Mobile, Nokia, Microsoft and Showtime.