CampusLive, a Boston-based Web advertising startup for connecting brands with college students, has raised $3.1 million from Highland Capital Partners and Charles River Ventures, as well as other individual investors, according to a report from Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe today. Last year the firm, whose founders come from UMass Amherst, raised $340,000 in funding, which we rounded up in our under-the-radar deals list. College students can compete for prizes using CampusLive, whose website says it has doled out more than $30,000 worth of prizes.
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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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