The corporate venturing units of US online companies AOL and Google were among the syndicate backing local mobile application problem solver Crittercism. Terms were undisclosed, but unnamed sources told news provider Xconomy the deal was worth between $1m and $2m.
AOL Ventures and Google Ventures were joined by venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures.
Crittercism’s technology allows developers to tell when their mobile applications are crashing. The company’s test, or beta, product has been downloaded more than a million times since it was released in January.
The company came out of the AngelPad accelerator program, a start-up incubator set up by a group of ex-Google executives, and raised funding March. Crittercism said domestic and international investors also participated in the seed round, including early Facebook engineer Lucas Nealson.
Last month, AOL and Google backed another graduate of the AngelPad programme: Shopobot, a US-based online price tracker.