Perfecto Mobile Raises $7 million from Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital

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Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:12am EDT

Perfecto Mobile Raises $7 million from Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture
Capital
The new investment will be used to support the company's strategy to expand
its mobile device testing service cloud.




TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfecto Mobile, a global leading
provider of remote access and automated testing solutions for mobile devices,
today announced that it has closed a $7 million second round of financing. The
sum was raised from existing investors: Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture
Capital. Perfecto Mobile will use the proceeds of this financing round to
expand its Handset Cloud testing service as well as for ramping up marketing
and sales activities.

"We are very excited about the new investment from our long-term supporting
venture funds," said Eran Yaniv, CEO of Perfecto Mobile. "The emergence of new
business models and open technologies in the mobile industry, such as mobile
application stores, mobile widgets and open device platforms increases the
need for testing on mobile devices and thus creates a great opportunity for
Perfecto Mobile." 

Yaniv added that with the new funds Perfecto Mobile will be able to reach more
developers and better address their needs by increasing the number of handsets
available for testing in more geographical locations.

"We are confident in Perfecto Mobile's ability to take advantage of the big
and growing market it approaches," said Rina Shainski, General Partner at
Carmel Ventures. "With a strong management team and a compelling service that
helps perfecting mobile applications and increasing the quality in the mobile
industry, Perfecto Mobile is poised to be the leader of its market." 

"With customers such as Vodafone and Swisscom, Perfecto Mobile has proven its
ability to help overcome the huge challenges that mobile operators and mobile
application providers face when they take new devices and applications to
market," said Ehud Levy, Managing Partner at Vertex Venture Capital. "We are
glad to help Perfecto Mobile grow and expand its activities to additional
customers and markets."

The developments in the mobile industry encourage an ever-growing number of
developers to create a myriad of new innovative applications and quickly get
them to market. In order to successfully monetize applications and ensure
their quality, these developers, as well as the app stores providers, need to
test the applications on a variety of mobile handsets. Perfecto Mobile's
Handset Cloud service enables developers and testers to test their mobile
phone applications over the web on a multitude of real handsets of various
platforms, such as Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and J2ME.

About Perfecto Mobile
Perfecto Mobile is global leading provider of remote access and automated
testing solutions for mobile devices. Perfecto Mobile's Handset Cloud service
enables developers and testers located anywhere in the world to access, via
the Internet, a comprehensive range of the latest mobile handsets. Users can
use the Perfecto Mobile handsets to develop, test, deploy and monitor their
mobile applications and services. In addition, they can use the service to
ensure effective collaboration between their various internal teams, their
customers and their partners.

Perfecto Mobile also provides dedicated Private Handset Cloud systems for
mobile operators, handset manufacturers, and independent software vendors. The
Perfecto Mobile system provides a secure, online environment where users can
access pre-and post-launch handsets for development, testing, and
post-deployment service monitoring. Vodafone and Swisscom are among the
Perfecto Mobile customers who are already taking advantage of the Private
Handset Cloud system.

Founded in 2006, Perfecto Mobile's headquarters are located in Petach Tivkva,
Israel. The company is funded by Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital.
For more information and a free trial please visit
http://www.perfectomobile.com.


    For more information contact:

      Dan Shoshani
      Perfecto Mobile
      Tel:  972-3-926-0100
      Email:  dans@perfectomobile.com






SOURCE  Perfecto Mobile

Dan Shoshani of Perfecto Mobile, +972-3-926-0100, dans@perfectomobile.com
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