Two Austin Startups Find Funding Despite Economy

Amid general economic bad news, a pair of Austin startups have managed to raise significant cash to boost their businesses.

OneSpot received $4.2 million in financing, led by Silver Creek Ventures. OneSpot is a content recommendation engine that helps customers find quality content and easily aggregate and publish it as a way of supplementing their own online content. Their customers include the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and SFGate.com.

Web analytics firm 7 Billion People raised $3 million in financing from SmithCo Investments. 7 Billion People builds software that gathers key information about website visitors, then processes that information to help site owners personalize the information each person sees.

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