YouSendIt and MyFabrik are two of the many companies that let you easily share large files, such as videos or photos. They’ve raised venture capital recently, to help them survive the throng of competitors.
Have you ever had an outgoing or incoming email bounce because you were trying to send a giant attachment?
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The company has just raised $4.7 million more in a second part of its first round of venture capital. Backers Alloy Ventures, Cambrian Fund and Sevin Rosen Funds invested the money, according to PE Week.
Today the company announced MyFabrik Lite, another free service that lets you upload your file and send them to others without having to send attachment. The recipient receives an email with a URL link allowing them to download it. It also lets you embed a widget into your blog, so that you can upload files there for people to download. You get 1GB of space. However, you can’t log into the account to edit the media after it is up.
The company has raised $12 million in financing, and close to 90 percent of that is still in the bank, Cardano says. The money came from ComVentures and others, and this hasn’t been reported before, to our knowledge.
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