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January 5, 2009 12:36 PM PST

Xobni raises cash from Cisco

by Rafe Needleman
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Outlook plug-in maker Xobni has raised a $7 million series B round of funding led by Cisco. Previous investors from the series A funding (about $4.1 million) also participated in this round.

Xobni is an e-mail add-on that analyzes your in-box to give you context around the people you communicate with. Recent updates also correlate against social sites like LinkedIn to provide even more information on people.

A company spokesperson told me that the funds will be used to add features and stability to the application, and to knock out a few remaining bugs that prevent some users (like me) from using the Xobni add-on. At the same time, the funds will help the company weather the tough economy. The company blog discusses a "focus on our premium business, and address the growing interest from our enterprise customer base," which meshes with Cisco's business model.

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Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.
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by MatthiasPeters February 11, 2009 12:28 PM PST
Simple amazing! They have a competitor form Germany called 'Lookeen'.

Lookeen team is NOT funded but lives only from their customers so far! Sounds for me like David vs Gozialla :)
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