Alongside Google Ventures in the A round were venture capital firms InterWest Partners, Accel Partners and 500 Startups and angel investors.

LocBox, a US-based provider of marketing automation tools for small businesses, has raised $5.1m in its series A round from a consortium including search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit.

Saumil Mehta and Sailesh Ramakrishnan began working on LocBox after leaving Kosmix, a web and social search company acquired by retailer WalMart in April 2011.

Alongside Google Ventures in the A round were venture capital firms InterWest Partners, Accel Partners and 500 Startups and angel investors Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, co-founders…