Acquia,the commercial developer of open source publishing platform Drupal, has raised a $7 million first round led by North Bridge Venture Partners

What Company Is Offering:
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites.
How Much It Got From VCs:

Acquia,the commercial developer of open source publishing platform Drupal, has raised a $7 million first round led by North Bridge Venture Partners; also participating were Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Funding will go towards the establishment of value-added software and services around.

About Acquia:

Acquia is a new software company that will provide value-added software products and services for the Drupal web collaboration and publishing platform.

With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to deliver a wide variety of Web 2.0 application types including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, forums, portals, and web content management.

Diverse organizations use Drupal as their core social web platform including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, New York Observer, Forbes, The Onion, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active committers who contribute to the open source technology, including nearly 2000 community developed modules for extending Drupal functionality.

More at:http://acquia.com/
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