Four years after it provided the cloud-based communication technology developer's seed funding, Telstra has returned for a $8.9m series A round.
Australia-based communications technology provider Whispir raised A$11.75 ($8.9m) in a series A round yesterday featuring Telstra Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of telecommunications firm Telstra.
NSI Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, also took part in the round, as did advisory firm Rippledot Capital, Whispir co-founder and chief executive Jeromy Wells, and assorted angel investors.
Whispir operates a cloud-based service that allows customers to design apps for internal and customer-facing communications with limited coding…