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Kollective Closes $12.25M Series C Round

Kollective, a cloud-based software defined networking company, has closed a $12.25 million Series C funding round. Investors include MK Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Cross Creek Capital and Hatteras Funds.

Dan Vetras, Kollective CEO, said, “We are witnessing an explosive growth in enterprise-scale customers who leverage video as a key form of communication to dispersed employees worldwide.”

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