Gnip, Inc. Announces $3.5 Million Second Round of Funding
Customers and Partners Embrace the Gnip On-Demand Extensible
Messaging Platform
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gnip, an on-demand extensible messaging solution that is standardizing
the way companies access and integrate the web’s
data, today announced that it has closed a second round of financing.
The investors in this $3.5 million round include Foundry Group, First
Round Capital and SoftTech VC, all of whom also participated in Gnip’s
initial seed round earlier this year.
Gnip will leverage its new funding to invest in the further development
of its extensible messaging platform, to deliver new products and to
develop additional partnerships where companies are building
applications that benefit from the ability to easily access, filter and
integrate business and social data from across the Internet. Learn more
about Gnip, Inc. at http://www.gnipcentral.com.
Standardizing and delivering the web's data
The Internet has always been social, and with the explosion of
user-generated content and a corresponding growth in open web APIs there
is an ever expanding amount of business and social data available that
has been implemented in a vacuum using different markup, formats and
protocols. Whether developers are trying to build a more dynamic social
web experience or trying to integrate activity stream events and content
into a custom web application Gnip provides a universal messaging
backbone that makes it easy to access, filter and integrate data to
build compelling business and social applications.
"Gnip provides a consistent and easy-to-implement interface for getting
data from a variety of providers," said Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform
Architect, Plaxo, "We recently updated Plaxo Pulse using Gnip and have
seen significant improvements; by moving from polling to pushing we get
updates dramatically faster while simultaneously lowering the load on
our servers and the services we crawl. It's great to let Gnip worry
about getting us the data while we focus on how to best present it to
our users, and what new features to add on top of it."
"The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables
developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond,"
said Jonathan Trevor, YQL Lead, Yahoo!, Inc. "Gnip is a perfect example
of an enabling third-party service to include in the YQL table set since
it provides a common interface to easily access, filter and post data
from multiple web APIs and feeds of the most popular social media sites
in use across the Internet."
“We are very excited to work with
customers and partners from across the industry to make it drop dead
easy to help developers get the business and social data they need, when
and where they need it,” said Eric
Marcoullier, CEO and Founder, Gnip, Inc. “This
new round of funding will be used to expand the breadth of solutions we
can bring to market and allows us to aggressively expand the solution
and content providers that are pre-integrated with the Gnip on-demand
messaging platform.”
About Gnip
Gnip is standardizing the way companies access and integrate the web's
data. Using Gnip's on-demand extensible messaging platform companies can
simplify how they access and integrate business and social data from
across the Internet. Gnip makes it easy to access, filter and integrate
the web’s data that companies are now using as
the basis for providing compelling business and social applications.
Find out more at http://www.gnipcentral.com/.
Gnip, Inc.
Shane Pearson, 303-997-7488
shane@gnipcentral.com
http://www.gnipcentral.com/
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