Montreal - Identi.ca, the developer of an open-source alternative to the Twitter microblogging service, has raised an undisclosed sum of angel funding from Montreal Start Up, according to published reports.

GigaOM reports that the venture capital firm typically invests between about $120,000 and $320,000 per deal.

Montreal, Canada-based Identi.ca is a "federated" microblogging service, which allows the platform to be used by anyone to create microblogging systems.

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/afghe (GigaOM)

http://snipurl.com/afg45 (VentureBeat)

http://montrealstartup.com

http://www.identi.ca