Basho Brings in Half of $7.5M Round

Cambridge, MA-based Basho Technologies, a provider of open source database software, has brought in roughly half of a $7.5 million funding round, according to a report today in Mass High Tech. The money comes from private equity firm Georgetown Partners, and Trifork AS, a Danish systems integrator that has also come on board as the European distributor of Riak, Basho’s software.

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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.