Pulse Raises $9M in Series A Financing
Summary
Pulse, a Palo Alto, California-based developer of a visual news reader available for iPad, iPhone and Android, has raised $9m in Series A financing.In conjunction with the funding, NEA’s co-head of consumer investing, Patrick Chung, will join Pulse’s board of directors.Earlier in June, Pulse launched Pulse.me, which allows users to save stories for later reading in their personal archives, viewable on any Pulse-enabled device or the Web.The company has already esteblished content partnerships with AOL, The Atlantic, CNET, Discover Magazine, Gawker, The Huffington Post, The New Yorker, Salon.com, TIME, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, and Yahoo!Pulse users can choose up to 60 news sources in an easy to read, customizable interface on the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets.