Brizzly is on a roll right now. Just yesterday, it became the first web-based Twitter client to implement Lists, and last week it rolled out Facebook support. Today brings good news for its parent company: More funding.
At the end of this month, Thing Labs will close a $600,000 round which is basically an extension of its Series A from back in June of last year, co-founder Jason Shellen tells us. This will bring its total funding to $2.2 million. But this round is more notable for who is involved: angel investor Ron Conway, Steve Olechowski (the former COO of Feedburner, now at Google), and Greg Yaitanes, who was an early Twitter investor, but is better known as a director of Fox’s hit show House. He’s also directed episodes of Lost, Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy, and many other popular TV shows.
Polaris Venture Partners, which did Thing Lab’s initial round is also re-upping to put in some more money we’re told. Thing Labs initially sprung out of Dog Patch Labs, a San Francisco-based incubator that is run by Polaris.
Shellen first unveiled Brizzly at our first Realtime Crunchup back in July, and he will be appearing at our second event later this month.
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For a moment I read Brizzly in “GOOGLE HEALTH”
Brizzly is very nice
Another awesome update from a great team. I’m impressed with how quickly they’re interating their product- definitely keeps them at the lead of the social-web viewer pack. Oh, and @willotoons super cute bears win them “easy on the eyes” points too
What is so great about Brizzly. It is just a feature based site with no user base or unique features.. Just like all the other Twitter apps that were popular last year, everyone will forget brizzly in two months. Seems like the only person that keeps talking about Brizzly is MG.
Brizzly is the best Twitter app out there now.
Funny how Twitter-related articles used to generate 70-80 comments, now they just get 5 or 6. The excitement is over guys, time to start writing about tech again.
Why do they need to raise money? I mean, all you have to pay for is hosting…
So that they can sit and wait for Twitter to come up with new features and quickly copy what Twitter implements and call it innovation. That is why they need money