TweetDeck boosted by $2 million VC funding

published 19 August 2009

TweetDeck, the Twitter management app, has been given $2 million boost by venture capitalists.

The financial boost comes from the combined forces of PROfounders Capital, BetaWorks and The Accelerator Group.

With more and more business uses viewing Twitter as a corporate vehicle, it's quite clear why management applications such as TweetDeck are being seen as the future.

"Tweetdeck is about Twitter and so much more. We feel it can become the browser for the real-time web," Sean Seton-Rogers, a partner at PROfounder Capital told IT PRO. "As people need to manage all the information coming to them from Facebook, Twitter, and other apps, Tweetdeck is a lifesaver."

PROfounders Capital was sent up by industry heavyweights Brent Hoberman the co-founder of Lastminute.com and Bebo founder Michael Birch.

Click here for our beginner's guide to Twitter for business.

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.