Ziptr Snaps Up $6.8M

Burlington, MA-based software startup Ziptr has brought in $6.8 million in equity financing from 26 investors, an SEC filing shows. Ziptr’s website says that its software, which is in its beta version, is focused on privacy and compliance for businesses. Last October the company raised $1.5 million in a debt financing from 25 investors.

Author: Erin Kutz

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.