Yottaa Gets $4M, Releases Website Performance Monitoring Service

Cambridge, MA-based Internet startup Yottaa announced today that it has wrapped up a $4 million Series A financing round and has launched a free, beta version of its tool for analyzing website performance.

The funding comes from General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners, and Cambridge West Ventures. Yottaa‘s first product, Yottaa Insights, enables consumers to track various measures of website performance, such as the time taken to load the page, the complexity of a page, and how well a page’s network and servers perform. It also allows companies and websites to link the data to their traffic and overall business performance using Google Analytics, and diagnose and correct the sources of page performance issues.

Yottaa was co-founded in 2009 by Coach Wei, the founder and chairman of Nexaweb Technologies, a Burlington, MA-based maker of software for converting traditional computer applications to run on the cloud. Analog Devices founder Ray Stata is Yottaa’s chairman.

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.