Fluent Mobile, a Boston startup that makes an iPhone news-aggregating app called Fluent News, said today in an SEC filing that it has raised $5.5 million in a funding round. The firm previously raised $1.25 million in February 2010. Its board of directors, according to the SEC filing, includes Jon Auerbach, a general partner at Charles River Ventures, and Maia Heymann, who is also on the board of the Lexington, MA-based investment network CommonAngels. Here’s a more in-depth read on Fluent Mobile from when they emerged from stealth mode last summer.
Author: Ryan McBride
Ryan is an award-winning business journalist who contributes to our life sciences and technology coverage. He was previously a staff writer for Mass High Tech, a Boston business and technology newspaper, where he and his colleagues won a national business journalism award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008. In recent years, he has made regular TV appearances on New England Cable News.
Prior to MHT, Ryan covered the life sciences, technology, and energy sectors for Providence Business News. He graduated with honors from the University of Rhode Island in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. When he’s not chasing down news, Ryan enjoys mountain biking and skiing in his home state of Vermont.
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