Redline Brings in $7.45M

Woburn, MA-based Redline Trading Solutions, a maker of software that delivers financial market data to trading applications at high speed, has raised a $7.45 million round of equity-based funding from five investors, according to an SEC filing. The document reveals that $730,249 of the round will go to repurchasing 55,280 shares of common stock held by company president Mark Skalabrin. The filing also lists two Redline directors in addition to Skalabrin: Darren Cohen of Goldman Sachs, and James Bertelli.

Author: Erin Kutz

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.