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Viime päivinä maailmalta on kuulunut muutamia open source -yritysten rahoitusuutisia:

Alfresco $9M

Alfresco Software Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the completion of a $9 million Series C round of financing led by SAP Ventures, bringing total funding to $19 million.

Alfresco will use the proceeds to fund continued growth into the enterprise content management market, including product development and acceleration of global expansion plans, particularly in the German, US and Asian markets. (Lähde: Alfresco)

Openads $15,5M

Openads, the developer of the free, open source ad server now used by more than 30,000 publishers worldwide, today announced the completion of its Series B financing. The $15.5 million investment was led by Accel Partners, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

The company will use the funds to accelerate product development and expand its team to support its large publisher community, which is now using Openads to deliver billions of ads daily in over 100 countries around the world. (Lähde: Prnewswire.com)

…we’re also able to use some of that new investment straight away to deliver one of the most requested features from our community – a hosted version of their favourite ad serving software! (Lähde: Openads Blog)

Automattic $29,5M

GigaOM reports that Autmomattic, the company behind the open-source blogging platform WordPress, Spam filter Akismet, and other products, has raised $29.5M in Series B round of funding led by True Ventures in addition to The New York Times, Polaris Ventures, and Radar Ventures led by Polaris Venture Partners, which has provided $20M of the amount, in addition to True Ventures, The New York Times and Radar Ventures. (Lähde: Technozzle.com)

The large injection of capital will not only go towards the development of Akismet and WordPress (the downloadable software) but the development of (its hosted blogging platform), (its avatar offering), and BBPress (an upcoming hosted bulletin board product) as well. (Lähde: TechCrunch)