Parakweet Raises $2 Mln

Parakweet said Tuesday it secured $2 million in funding led by a group of investors including Scott Banister, an early investor in PayPal, Zappos and Powerset; Alan Braverman, co-founder of Yammer and Eventbrite; David Jeske, former Director of Engineering at Google; and other angel investors and entrepreneurs. San Francisco-based Parakweet is a platform that offers product recommendations to consumers, as well as social media analytics and metadata to global media companies

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