Sonian, a Needham, MA-based maker of cloud-powered e-mail archiving technology, announced today that it has raised $9 million in a Series B financing. The money comes from new strategic investors Amazon.com and Webroot Software, who joined existing Sonian backers Summerhill Venture Partners and Prism VentureWorks. Last month we reported that Sonian, which uses Amazon’s cloud technology to store archived e-mails, had raised $4 million of a $9 million round, based on information obtained from an SEC filing.
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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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