Glympse Raises $7.5M

Social GPS startup Glympse has raised $7.5 million in a Series B round led by Menlo Ventures and Ignition Partners. The Redmond, WA-based company’s application allows users to show other people where they are in real time, showing up as an icon tracing its path around city streets, for instance. Glympse says it’s useful for things like alerting colleagues where you are if you’re late to a meeting, or finding friends for social meetups. Pravin Vazirani from Menlo Ventures and Michelle Goldberg from Ignition Partners are joining the startup’s board as part of the financing deal announced Wednesday. Existing board members include Seattle’s Tom Huseby, of SeaPoint Ventures, and Greg Tarr of the Bay Area’s Rogers Ventures. The company’s co-founders are former Microsofties: CEO Bryan Trussel and Chief Architect Steve Miller.

Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.