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Liquid Machines Closes $10 Million Financing

Robert Buderi 2/5/08 11:18 am

Liquid Machines of Waltham, MA, a provider of enterprise rights management solutions focused on protecting intellectual property and other sensitive information, closed a $10 million Series D funding round, the company has announced. The financing was led by RRE Ventures. Return backers included Goldman, Sachs & Co., Atlas Venture, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Masthead Ventures. Liquid Machines was co-founded in 2001 by Michael D. Smith, who is now dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

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