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$2.5M for Akademos

Akademos, a Norwalk, CT-based startup that sells used college textbooks and course materials through online bookstores, has raised $2.5 million in equity funding, according to documents filed August 4 with the Securities and Exhange Commission. Kohlberg Ventures of Portola Valley, CA, provided the funding, according to a press release circulated today, and Kohlberg partner Bill Youstra has joined Akademos’ board, along with former eHarmony marketing executive Scott Eagle. $190,000 of the $2.5 million found will go to repay debt owed by Akademos to its CEO, Brian Jacobs, according to the filing.

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com, call him at (617) 252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wroush.

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