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First Hop gains $9M in second-round financing

HELSINKI, Finland-Wireless middleware provide First Hop said it closed its second round of funding for $8.9 million. Partech International was the lead investor, with existing investors DFJ ePlanet Ventures and Stratos Ventures also participating.

The financing will further speed up the company’s product development, customer service ramp-up and market expansion, First Hop said.

Helmut Schon, general partner at Partech , will join the First Hop board.

First Hop’s Wireless Broker product enables mobile operators and service providers to manage the end-to-end process of wireless content delivery.

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