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As per SEC filings, Vanu in Cambridge, MA has raised $3.2M in funding. Vanu provides wireless infrastructure solutions for commercial carriers and government customers, focusing on coverage needs where current technology does not provide a
cost effective solution for carriers today.
SessionM, the mobile engagement engine for the app economy, announced a $20 million Series B round of financing led by Charles River Ventures. SessionM's current investors, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner PerkinsCaufield and Byers (KPCB), also fully participated in the round. The companywill use the financing to hire top talent and continue rapid expansion of its platform, technology and network footprint.
Catalina Marketing Corporation, the leader in precision consumer marketing, today announced that is has completed its acquisition of Modiv Media, the industry-proven provider of mobile commerce solutions. The integration of Modiv into Catalina provides brands and retailers the ability to engage shoppers, influence their behavior, and boost loyalty with a unique mobile experience that saves shoppers time and money.
OnePIN, Inc., the world’s leading provider of mobile social address book solutions, today announced that it has raised a $1.3 million round of financing. This funding was raised from existing investors, bringing the company’s total financing to $25.6 million. This investment enables OnePIN’s continued expansion into international mobile markets. OnePIN’s social address book service, CallerXchange, is currently being distributed to over 150 million mobile subscribers within eighteen mobile operators around the world.
As per SEC filings, Radio Mobile Access in Andover, MA has raised $9.5M in funding. Radio Mobile Access is building an array of solutions for the mobile broadband industry. Their vision/mission is to enhance communications experience, and reduce cost of technology.
TalkTo, Inc. announced today the launch of talkto: Boston, a version of its messaging service that enables Boston-area residents to text any store, restaurant, salon, hotel or other type of business. TalkTo also announced the closing of its $3 million Series A funding from Matrix Partners, which will be used to fuel a national rollout later this year.
TalkTo first emerged in limited beta in September 2011 with an audacious goal: to make it possible to text any business whenever you want, and get a text response from the business in return. Designed to look and feel like SMS, the app lets anyone inquire about products and services, book appointments and reservations, or ask other questions with a text message.
Crashlytics is excited to announce that our Series A round raised $5 million with the help from VC firms like Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures. This follows our $1 million Seed Round last year from both firms and a bunch of great angels as well.
Since the launch of our crash reporting software for mobile
applications in October, we have been swamped with interest to join our
beta service. Generating great feedback from users has allowed us to
perfect the lightest weight SDK on the market (with a size of roughly
40KB) while continuing to pinpoint the direct line of code that causes
each crash. Furthermore, Crashlytics has eliminated the need for
developers to ship an app with any debug symbols, reducing user download
size by 30-50%.
Over 500 organizations are already utilizing Crashlytics and
deploying our SDK to tens of millions of devices. Every day, more and
more organizations are adding Crashlytics to their apps, and we’re
currently in use by many top applications spanning social, gaming, and
financial categories. Our goal is to continue assisting mobile app
developers by revolutionizing mobile infrastructure software and
repairing the disconnect between developers and consumers.
As per the company's blog post, AisleBuyer in Boston, MA has been acquired by Intuit. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed. AisleBuyer is a mobile commerce platform and app company that previously raised $11M in funding.
The Tap Lab raised $550K in funding from Harmonix co-founders Alex Rigopulos & Eran Egozy, Don Dodge, Mike Dornbrook of CommonAngels and other angel investors. The Tab Lab is social gaming company based in Cambridge. Their first game, TapCity is available on the iPhone app store by clicking here.
As per SEC filings, LiveWire Mobile in Littleton, MA has raised $500K in debt financing. LiveWire Mobile has a comprehensive end-to-end managed service solutions for network operators, consumer device manufacturers, media companies and content providers. With a broad suite of mobile entertainment services, Livewire Mobile transforms everyday mobile communication into a fun, exciting and personal experience for consumers and a profitable opportunity for our customers.
Kibits Corp. today announced the release of its namesake micro-social networking app for iPhone and iPod touch, available now on the App Store. The first-of-its-kind Kibits App introduces a new, natural way for mobile-centric consumers and professionals to engage with friends, family, and co-workers from the convenience of their iPhone or iPod touch.
The company has raised $1M from Google Ventures, Charles
River Ventures, General Catalyst, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, SOSventures,
Launch Capital, the CommonAngels Fund, and a number of angels.
By leveraging unambiguous real-world relationships—such as
existing contacts and Facebook friends, calendar appointments, and physical
proximity—the Kibits App is the fastest way to create and connect with groups
on-the-fly. Each Kibits group serves as a micro-network, enabling focused
conversations with real-time sharing of photos, videos, links, locations,
notes, even documents from iCloud and Dropbox, along with built-in chat,
comments, and ratings. All with a single app that automatically organizes the
conversation.
Vivox Inc., a leader in social communications,
today announced its acquisition of Droplet Inc., a developer of unique,
patented technology to deliver a high-quality video chat experience on
mobile networks. Vivox will integrate Droplet's mobile video software
into its VoiceEverywhere™ platform, which serves more than 80 million
fans generating 3.5 billion minutes of voice chat each month.
The Droplet acquisition will augment Vivox's cross-platform
communication capabilities, strengthening its video chat solution for
mobile while minimizing the bandwidth, processing resources and power
needed from the mobile network and device itself. Consumers with mobile
broadband network connections will be able to harness the new video
technology through Vivox's VoiceEverywhere platform.
As reported by Scott Kirsner, Adelphic Mobile has raised $2M in funding from Matrix Partners. Antonio Rodriguez will be joining their board. Other investors include Project 11 Ventures and Mocospace Co-Founder Justin Siegel. Adelphic Mobile enables efficient buying and selling of targeted mobile media at scale through their powerful and intelligent Predictive Data Platform. Their platform, AudienceCube™, is a new targeting technology that systematically extracts data predictive of campaign performance, and makes it available real-time so that media becomes more targetable and reachable.
Apperian, Inc. today announced it has closed a $12.4 million round of venture financing, with investments from North Bridge Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' (KPCB) iFund, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Common Angels, all existing investors in the company. The new round of funding brings Apperian's total financing to $24 million.
Since receiving its first round of financing in March of 2011, Apperian has experienced explosive revenue growth, which is being fueled by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. Apperian's GAAP revenue doubled in each quarter during 2011, and the company expects that trend to continue in 2012.
As per SEC filings, Ping4 in Hollis, NH has raised $1.1M in funding. Ping4 is a new mobile messaging platform that pushes real-time alerts and rich content to your smartphone based on your location, preferences, or proximity to your favorite stores.
We are pleased to announce that RIM has acquired Paratek Microwave Inc. As a part of RIM, a technology leader and pioneer in the smartphone category, Paratek will continue to innovate and to bring leading edge adaptive tuning solutions to the industry. We are very excited about this transaction and the opportunity to serve RIM and realize our vision.
On February 28th, 2012, Oberthur Technologies entered into an exclusive agreement with MoreMagic supported by its major shareholders including Battery Ventures and Vision Capital.
ROAM Data, the company behind a vast majority of the encrypted mobile card readers shipped in the past year and the leading mCommerce platform-as-a-service provider, announced today that Ingenico has invested in the company to further fuel its growth and to jointly offer its mCommerce solutions to payment service providers worldwide. With Ingenico’s cash infusion and strategic partnership, ROAM now has the backing of a billion euro company behind its innovative team of mCommerce experts to further strengthen its core competence and solutions to its customers.
Today, Media Armor is proud to announce our $1.5M Series A, and welcome investors, new and old alike, to the fold!
Founded in 2010 by Eric Brown and Elizabeth Zalman,
Media Armor’s raison d’être is rooted in mobile, the most exciting
medium of our time. We believe that mobile display, at a minimum,
should be approached with the same sophistication and accountability as
online. Through our display, we enable Brands and Retailers to acquire
new customers, keep existing ones loyal, and remarket to past site
visitors. All programs are run with a traditional test-and-control,
isolating the view-based incremental-impact of our media. Media Armor
is the first in mobile to offer view-through, quantitative
test-and-control, and ID-level decisioning based upon a brand’s own data
set.
Our round was led by Geoff Judge of iNovia Capital and Ian Sigalow of Greycroft Partners, and investors include Neu Venture Capital’s Jerry Neumann, Brian Cohen, Chairman of New York Angels, John Taysom, Investor and currently on a Fellowship year at Harvard, Jeffrey Silverman of Laconia Ventures LLC, Philip Grieshaber, Principal Scientist at Adobe, Justin Siegel, Co-founder & CEO of Mocospace, and Steve Tinlin, Investor and ad tech veteran.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced today that it has acquired Blaze Software Inc., a provider of frontend optimization (FEO) technology, in a cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to complement Akamai's market-leading site acceleration solutions with technology designed to optimize the speed at which a web page is rendered, regardless of end user device.
Options Media Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: OPMG) (PINKSHEETS: OPMG) (the "Company" or "Options Media") has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire 100% of the stock of Illume Software, Inc., a Boston-based mobile software company, whose iZup software is a responsible solution to cell phone-related distracted driving. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the merger, which is expected to close by February 12, 2012, subject to various closing conditions, including the approval of Illume shareholders and other customary closing conditions.
As per SEC filings, Azuki Systems in Acton, MA has raised $5.1M in funding. Azuki Systems is leading the video delivery revolution to any screen over any network. Azuki’s solutions deliver rich, protected content to any device over any network, allowing content owners, enterprises and service providers to capitalize on the explosive growth of smartphones, tablets and multiple screens.
Constant Contact®, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CTCT), the trusted marketing advisor to more than 450,000 small
organizations worldwide, has acquired privately owned CardStar Inc., the
leading loyalty platform that helps shoppers stay connected to their
favorite merchants. With over two million users, Boston-based CardStar
is a leading developer of mobile applications that extend the use of
loyalty cards and mobile coupons among consumers. The acquisition marks
the latest milestone in Constant Contact's evolution from an email
marketing company to the leading provider of online marketing tools that
help small businesses create and grow customer relationships. Financial
details of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Pyxis Mobile team today announced the launch of Verivo Software, the enterprise mobility company dedicated to helping businesses drive their mobile initiatives and impacting their bottom-line. Verivo leverages Pyxis Mobile’s assets and technology, along with its new and expanded business model, product line and management team. Only Verivo’s enterprise mobility platform empowers companies to build, deploy and manage apps quickly and easily to meet today’s market demands.
The company also announced that it has secured $17 million in growth capital funding to further boost sales, fuel marketing programs and accelerate its product development roadmap as it expands its global presence.
Physicians Interactive Holdings, Inc. the leading provider of mobile and web-based clinical resources and solutions for healthcare professionals, today announced it entered into an agreement with Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, LLC (“GHIF”) to invest up to $17 million in the Company. The financing includes an initial investment of $8.5 million and potential future investments of up to $8.5 million contingent upon achieving certain pre-specified milestones. The proceeds will be used to fund the growth initiatives of four key products and other initiatives as identified by the Board. Physicians Interactive Holdings was identified by GHIF as being on the forefront of healthcare innovation, and the investment is part of the fund’s strategy to help nurture leading global healthcare solutions.
As reported by Mass High Tech, Zmags in Boston, MA has raised $7M in a debt funding round. Zmags helps thousands of the world’s most progressive retailers and brands drive product discovery and inspire purchase by creating a deeply immersive and compelling consumer shopping experience across all digital touchpoints. Using the Zmags on-demand rich media merchandising platform, businesses measurably and dramatically increase customer engagement, conversion rates, order size and brand loyalty.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and Cotendo announced today
that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to
acquire Cotendo.
Helping to mitigate the challenges of operating in a hyperconnected
world, Akamai provides a secure platform over which businesses can
engage users across the Web, mobile, cloud, or a mix of public and
private network environments. Cotendo offers an integrated suite of Web
and mobile acceleration services. The combination of the two companies’
technologies and teams is expected to increase the pace of innovation
in the areas of cloud and mobile optimization.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Vlingo, Inc. Fueled by unprecedented demand for intelligent voice interfaces that combine voice, language understanding and semantic processing, Nuance and Vlingo will combine their deep innovation and R&D expertise to deliver next-generation natural language interfaces across numerous markets and industries.
Consumer interest and demand for virtual assistant and voice-enabled capabilities have exploded in recent months, creating a $5 billion market opportunity that spans phones, tablets, cars, televisions, navigation devices, music players, PCs and more. Both Nuance and Vlingo see an unprecedented appetite for intelligent devices that understand the spoken word and deliver outcomes for consumers and professionals.
As per SEC filings, LiveWire Mobile in Littleton, MA has raised $1.47M in debt financing. LiveWire Mobile has a comprehensive end-to-end managed service solutions for network operators, consumer device manufacturers, media companies and content providers. With a broad suite of mobile entertainment services, Livewire Mobile transforms everyday mobile communication into a fun, exciting and personal experience for consumers and a profitable opportunity for our customers.
As per SEC filings, OnePIN in Westborough, MA has raised $900K in funding. OnePIN’s technology transforms mobile phonebooks into social address books, improving customer retention while increasing voice and data revenue for mobile operators.