Woburn, MA-based IT startup Acquia said today that it has brought in $8.5 million in a Series C financing, from returning backers North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, alongside Acquia CEO Tom Erickson. The company, which raised $8 million in series B funding in July 2009, sells IT services and technical support to users of Drupal, an open-source content management system for websites that was originally authored by Acquia co-founder Dries Buytaert. Acquia plans to expand its reach with its cloud-based services for Drupal, and a recently launched software product for social businesses, according to today’s announcement.
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.
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