$8 Million for Mobile Streaming Video Startup

Wade Roush12/5/07

Buzzwire, based in Boston and Denver, will use an $8 million Series B funding round, announced today, to work with major cellular carriers to deploy its technology for streaming video, audio, and radio to mobile phones. New investor Sequel Partners of Boulder, CO, led the funding round, which also included existing investors Spark Capital and Matrix Partners. Sequel’s Ron Bernal, a veteran of Cisco and Silicon Graphics, joins Buzzwire’s board.

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.