WordStream, a Boston-based maker of software for improving search engine optimization and pay-per-click online marketing, has raised $6 million in Series B funding from Egan-Managed Capital and Sigma Partners. The startup, which also added Egan-Managed Capital partner Frank Andrasco to its board, says it will use the funding for growth and expansion of its products. Xconomy profiled WordStream in January 2009, when the company announced it had raised $4 million in venture funding.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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