Ecrio, a Cupertino Calif. company that offers mobile communications and commerce software to mainly Japanese and Asian phone makers, said it has raised more than $24 million dollars in a third round of funding.
Investors included CSK, JAIC, Nomura Securities, Aplix, NTT DoCoMo, Visa, and existing backer Noventi/CIR Ventures.
Ecrio is used on about 24 million “3G” handsets in Japan and Asia. The company has also launched of MoBeam, which uses a phone’s screen as a mobile barcode. The company is working with Visa’s mobile payment platform.
We covered the company when it raised the first portion of this third round. The company has raised about $34 million to date from the previously named backers and existing investors Cdb Web Tech, Diamond Capital Co., NetNet Ventures and Nexit Ventures. Nexit is the largest shareholder.
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The company earlier raised $3 million in 2005 and $7 million in a 2001.
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