Seattle-based Buuteeq, a startup focused on digital marketing software for independent hotels, said today it has raised $3.5 million in Series A financing. The round was led by aQuantive co-founder Mike Galgon and angel investor Geoff Entress, with participation from Benaroya Capital and others. Buuteeq (no, that’s not a misprint) makes cloud-based software that helps small hotels and inns produce marketing materials that work across Web, mobile, and social networks. The company was co-founded in early 2010 by former Microsofties Forest Key and Adam Brownstein and has raised a total of $5 million to date.
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Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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