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Sprout Raises $5 Million for Web Content Creation Platform

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 13, 2008 - 7:00am.

San Francisco - Sprout, the provider of a Web-based platform for the creation of Flash-based widgets, mashups, mini-sites, banners and other forms of distributable Web content, announced on Tuesday that it has closed a $5 million second round of financing, led by Polaris Venture Partners.

Previous investor Global Venture Capital, and Lotus founder Mitch Kapor also participated.

San Francisco-based Sprout's service lets users create "sprouts" by dragging and dropping rich media like video, audio, images and text, and interactive services like Twitter, Ribbit and PollDaddy.

Customers include entertainment industry firms like Universal Music Canada.

 

Related Links:
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http://www.sproutbuilder.com

Published in DMW Daily, May 13, 2008
tags: Deals | VC | Widgets | Sprout | Polaris Venture Partners | Global Venture Capital |

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