Altos Ventures Leads $5.7 Million Mobile Funding

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Trilibis Mobile announced today that it has raised $5.7 million in Series B financing.

Alternative Investor Altos Ventures led the round with participation from ATA Ventures and several early individual investors. Ho Nam, General Partner and Co-Founder of Altos Ventures, has joined the board of Trilibis Mobile. Mike Hodges, Managing Director of ATA Ventures, has joined as a board observer.

"Trilibis has done a great job of establishing relationships with Tier 1 carriers and proving out the SmartPath platform with key content partners," said Ho Nam of Altos Ventures. "With this capital infusion, we look forward to working with the Trilibis team to continue to take market share and grow the business."

The newly raised capital will be used to fund development of the next generation of SmartPath to include support for native applications for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Android devices. Additionally, Trilibis will devote some of the capital to boost its marketing and sales efforts.

"The tremendous increase in consumer adoption of smart phones has fueled the growth in mobile data services usage," said Alex Panelli, CEO of Trilibis. "Our objective is to capitalize on this emerging trend."

With this funding, Trilibis has raised a total of $8.3 million since inception.

Altos Ventures is a first-stage venture capital firm focused on leading investments in emerging technology companies with the goal of building market leaders. Altos manages $200 million in dedicated first-stage capital on behalf of leading endowment, fund-of-funds, financial and family office investors based in the United States and Asia.

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