Rock You!, provider of widgets on the web, announced fresh funding from Partech International. Founded in 2006, RockYou! serves over 150 million widget views per day to over 200 countries.
Partech International led the series B round with existing investors, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures for an undisclosed amount. The funding will enable Rock You! to continue its focus on developing and distributing the company’s suite of popular widgets for integration with many of the Web’s most trafficked social networking sites, blog networks and photo hosting websites.
“We are thrilled to complete our series B funding led by Partech International,†said Dr. Lance Tokuda, CEO and co-founder of RockYou!. “The additional funding will help further our efforts in creating easy to use, engaging and expressive widgets for our loyal user base, as well as provide our integration and content partners with the assurance of a secure and mutually beneficial relationship.â€
Originally posted on May 17, 2007 @ 6:00 am