App Store GetJar Downloads $11M Series B
Lots of people are enjoying playing with their new iPhone 4 right about now. So it’s a pretty good bet that lots of them are upgrading and downloading tons of apps on their newest toy from Apple by going to GetJar. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company earlier this month announced that it has downloaded more than 1 billion mobile apps from its independent store for use on Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian, among 2,000 other phones. GetJar ranks as the second largest app downloader behind, of course, Apple’s app store. Late Wednesday, just as Apple’s latest iPhone was due to arrive in stores and rival smart phone makers Motorola, Google and Verizon announced Droid X, the latest Android device, GetJar also unveiled that it raised an $11 million Series B round, funded entirely from return investor Accel Partners. The funding follows a $6 million round that GetJar raised from Accel in 2007.
