San Francisco -- Posterous, the San Francisco-based developer of a simple blogging platform that lets publishers upload new content through email, said that it has raised $4.4 million in its first round of funding. Investors included Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures and angels including SV Angel, Founder Collective, Lowercase Capital, Brian Pokorny, Aydin Senkut and XG Ventures. Founded in 2008 as a Y Combinator company, Posterous offers a free web publishing platform, designed for ease of use, that counts 12 million unique monthly visitors and 25 million page views. The company also plans to release a premium version of the platform later this year.
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