Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners, along with Rich Barton, the former CEO of Expedia and Zillow, and former RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser are among the investors who have joined a financing worth more than $4 million for San Francisco-based Hipmunk, according to a report in VentureBeat. We reported on the financing of Hipmunk last week, when it was disclosed in a regulatory filing, although the document didn’t say who invested. Hipmunk, which my colleague Wade Roush profiled in August, is developing a new airfare search interface.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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