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September 7, 2011 07:45 pm GMT
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Local Business Data Provider Locu Raises Seed Round
Locu, a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers,is closing a seed round of over $600,000 from East and West coast investors, including Factual founder GilElbaz, Google's Bruno Bowden, Cloudera founder Jeff Hammerbacher, Hubspot's Dharmesh Shah, Twitter VP of Engineering Michael Abbott, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, MIT's Ed Roberts, Jean Hammond, Matt Ockoand Mitch Roberts.Early stage investment fund Quotidian Ventures is also involved.Locu plans to create the world's largest real-time, structured repository of small business offerings data, such as restaurant menus, with the goal of helping better local search.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yf2j9G0gE-E/
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