San Diego - Tapioca Mobile, the developer of a platform that lets publishers deliver video, images and audio through SMS messages on mobile phones, has raised a $5 million first round of financing, led by Venrock, according to a regulatory filing.

San Diego-based Tapioca Mobile was co-founded by Sachin Deshpande, formerly head of BREW developer relations at Qualcomm, and Chas Wurster, whose previous venture Tourmaline Networks was sold to Nokia.

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