Visual IQ Grabs $3M From Fog City

Visual IQ, a Needham, MA-based maker of enterprise software for marketing intelligence, has wrapped up $3 million in an equity-based funding round. The funding, which represents Visual IQ’s first institutional round, comes from San Francisco-based Fog City Capital, the company says. Its website lists CVS, Wachovia, Radio Shack, and Microsoft as its customers.

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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.