Boston-based FitnessKeeper, the developer of mobile app RunKeeper, announced today that is has wrapped up a $1.1 million financing, led by Bryce Roberts at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The funding round also involved full participation from the startup’s existing investors, who include LaunchCapital, Will Herman, Dave Balter, and Don McLagan. They backed FitnessKeeper for its $400,000 seed funding in November 2009. The RunKeeper app for iPhone and Android tracks the distance, speed, and routes its users run, and recently rolled out virtual fitness classes to help users train for specific road races.
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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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