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Kaptio raises $2.6 million from Capital A and Frumtak 2

Kaptio, maker of Kaptio Travel, has raised a $2.6 million round from Frumtak 2 and Capital A Partners. Previous investors NSA and Kaskur also participated in the round.

Kaptio creates Kaptio Travel, a plug in for SalesForce, designed to help travel professionals manage their work in the cloud. Kaptio is one of two companies to have shown good promise building addons and plugins for established cloud platforms. The other is Tempo, maker of Tempo for Jira.

The financing is intended to strengthen the product development and sales efforts in the UK, as well as preparing the company for further international growth, according to a blog post on Einar Gunnar Guðmundsson’s website.

Kaptio had previously raised a little under $1 million (120 million ISK) from NSA and Kaskur in January 2015, and took part in Startup Reykjavik in 2012.

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