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I am happy to announce that our Series B investors have contributed another $5M in funding to Skyfire. This closes our Series B investment at $18M when considered with the earlier investment of $13M in May 08, and it brings us to a total of $22.8M raised since our founding. We are thrilled to have the support and commitment from such stellar firms as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. This funding enables us to recruit and maintain the most talented engineers in the world, and run the cloud computing data centers that speed up the full internet and compress it for high-speed delivery to your mobile phones. From it, our users get the happiness of web video and the freedom to go to any website without those dreaded plug-in errors that plague other mobile phones, like “Flash required to view this content”.
With these latest funds, we will continue to accelerate our growth to support new smartphone platforms beyond Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry. And, we will continue our work on solutions that utilize our unique technology beyond the browser. Later this year, expect to hear more about this. In the meantime, we’re heads down innovating Skyfire with more social browsing features and bringing it to the BlackBerry platform. That’s what is immediately in front of us. We hear all of you waiting for a better browsing experience on the BlackBerry and Symbian S60, 5th edition. We are working hard and will let you all know when we’re ready to bring those to public beta.
We are excited about closing our Series B and feel well poised for some exciting work and innovation over the coming year, to continue bringing revolutionary technologies to the mobile web. Thank you to all our users who keep posting and tweeting about how they love Skyfire. By word of mouth and the great reviews and blogs and accolades Skyfire continues to earn, we’ve seen our page views grow over 200% since the start of this year. And lots more to come.