Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Meteor Snags $11.2M

San Francisco-based Meteor, a developer of open source applications which allow users to write Javascript-based web applications, said today that it has raised $11.2M in a funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Matrix Partners, Maynard Webb, Paul Buchheit, James Lindenbaum, Dustin MOskovitz, Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator, Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, and Aaron Iba. Rod Johnson, author of the open source Spring application framework joins the board, and David Skok of Matrix and Peter Levine of Andreessen Horowitz will become special advisors to the company.