Currensee Rings Up $4M

Boston-based Currensee, a Web service targeting investors interested in foreign currency markets, said today that it has secured $4 million in funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital, and Vernon & Park Capital. The Series C financing brings the funding pot to $16.8 million for Currensee, which closed an $8 million Series B round last year. The money will go to developing decision making, collaboration and portfolio management tools for investors.

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.