Akiban Technologies, a Boston-based provider of database virtualization software for the cloud, has raised $3.2 million atop a $6.5 million financing it announced in July 2009, according to a filing amended with the SEC this week. North Bridge Venture Partners and Foundation Capital participated in the first part of the Series A round for the company, formerly named Akiba, whose software is targeted at the open-source community.
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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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