Swype, a Seattle, WA-based developer of text input technology, announced that it has secured $5.6m in Series B financing led by Nokia Growth Partners, Samsung Ventures, and returning investor Benaroya Capital.
The capital infusion will be used to launch Swype on a number of new mobile and touch-screen devices and platforms.
Swype’s patented new technology, which provides a faster way to input text on touchscreens, recently launched on its first consumer device, the Samsung Omnia II. Swype was developed by experts in computing and mobile phone text input technologies. Cliff Kushler, founder and CTO, is a co-inventor of the T9 text input software installed on over 4 billion mobile phones.
FinSMEs
15/12/2009