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Kaazing Raises $15M

Kaazing, a provider of live Web and mobile communication and authors of HTML5 WebSocket, has closed a $15 million funding round. The capital was raised through new investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP), as well as existing investors, to drive Kaazing’s plans for corporate growth.

This brings the company’s total financing to $39 million.

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