Mobile Search Engine Taptu Secures $10 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 16, 2008 - 9:39am.

Cambridge, England - Mobile search engine developer Taptu on Tuesday announced the closing of a $10 million second round of venture capital financing, from previous backers 3i and Sofinnova Investments.

Founded in 2007, Britain-based Taptu offers both a consumer mobile search portal at Taptu.com, and a suite of customizable search engine APIs for mobile publishers, portals and social networks.

The company also announced that it has named former TradeDoubler chief operating officer Andreas Bernstrom as its new COO.

http://taptu.com