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CircleCI Raises $1.5M From Eric Ries And Heroku Founders For Platform To Test Web Apps

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http://techcrunch.com – CircleCI, a continuous integration platform for web application developers, has announced $1.5 millon in seed funding from a group of individual investors. The investors participating include original Heroku founders and Eric Ries, founder of The Lean Startup, whose company IMVU pioneered many of the techniques that CircleCI has developed into a product portfolio. Joining early Heroku investors Baseline and Harrison Metal are Heroku founders James Lindenbaum and Adam Wiggins, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Hiten Shah from Kissmetrics and Jason Seats, founder of Slicehost. CircleCI describes itself (IT news)

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