SoonR, the mobile-to-PC company, raises $4 million

SoonR, the noteworthy Campbell start-up that lets you access your desktop from a mobile phone, and then lets you do things like make Skype calls, has raised more than $4 million in a first round of funding, led by Clearstone Venture Partners.

We talked with chief executive Martin Frid-Nielsen a few days ago. He said the company may raise more money (and has the option to raise at least $2 million more under his current deal)but hasn’t decided exactly when. He said he is glad he waited on taking money from venture capitalists. When he first talked with some a year or so ago, they hadn’t been too receptive. They’d encouraged him to build on a Java/J2ee platform, but his team preferred AJAX. “We’re glad we didn’t listen,” he said. Instead, he opted at that time to take money from a few angels, including the Rogers family (of Rogers Communications) and Thomson family, both of Canada.

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SoonR already lets you search your desktop with things like the Google and X1 desktop search functions. It is also now supporting MSN search and MS Outlook search.