[Posted on September 4, 2007 - 3:14 PM]
Unnamed investors pumped $2.9 million into 30 Second Software Inc., a startup that has created a shopping site for BlackBerry users. According to an article in The Austin American-Statesman, the firm filed papers disclosing the funding with the Texas State Securities Board. The company makes Digby, which allows users to buy everything from flowers to chocolate in less than a minute over a BlackBerry. Another Austin company, Phurnace Software Inc., which offers software that speeds up Java -based programs, also received funding. Phurnace received $1.3 million from DFJ Mercury, a Houston-based affiliate fund of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. —Stacey Higginbotham
See Sept. 3 story in The Austin American-Statesman
Tags: vc, venture+capital




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