Boston Roundup: Formlabs, Yesware, Globoforce, Shuttersong

Catching up after the long weekend, here’s a bit of Boston-area tech business spanning lawsuits, acquisitions, IPOs, and small fundraising rounds:

—It looks like Somerville, MA-based Formlabs, a 3D printing startup that recently raised $19 million, hasn’t quite shed a lingering patent lawsuit. South Carolina-based 3D Systems filed to dismiss its patent lawsuit against Formlabs last week, but a 3D Systems spokeswoman tells Xconomy that’s just to move the lawsuit from a South Carolina court to a new venue in New York. The two sides had been in settlement talks for several months.

—Yesware, which sells software for salespeople, has made its first acquisition: Attachments.me, a small startup working on e-mail software. The former Attachments.me group will remain in the San Francisco area. Yesware recently raised $13.5 million in a round led by Battery Ventures.

—Globoforce, a provider of software for corporate personnel departments, has filed for its IPO. The company, founded under a different name in 1997, has some strong Boston-area connections: its U.S. headquarters is Southborough, MA, and one of its venture capital investors is Cambridge, MA-based Atlas Venture. The company is officially based in Dublin. Kyle Alspach at the Boston Business Journal has more details from the filing.

—Shuttersong, a mobile app that lets users add sound to still photos, has raised a second round of angel investment. The $875,000 investment follows a first round of $800,000 raised in February. The Boston-based startup says its app has been downloaded more than 25,000 times since its launch in September.

Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.