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Ektron Gets Equity Investment

By TechTaffy Desk

Digital experience management software company Ektron has closed a second round of equity funding with Accel-KKR. This increased investment follows the investment made by Accel-KKR in April 2014, which was the company’s first institutional round. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ektron powers more than 10,000 web properties, including PayPal, Lloyd’s, Dolby, Sydney Opera House, Epicor Software, Invensys, Wolters Kluwer, and NASDAQ among some 3,800 organizations and brands worldwide.

[Image courtesy: Ektron]

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