Wikets, a new Lexington, MA-based social Web startup, has raised $1.5 million in equity-based funding from nine investors, an SEC filing shows. The company’s website says its technology enables users to exchange ideas with people they trust. Andrew Park and Vijay Manwani, both veterans of data center software provider BladeLogic (acquired by BMC Software in 2008), are listed on the SEC document as executives and directors at Wikets. Manwani is also on the advisory board for Volition Capital.
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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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