Xobni Takes $7 million, Cisco Leads the Round

Email services company Xobni has raised $7 million Series B in a round lead by Cisco that included existing investors Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Atomico.

Xobni offers an Outlook plugin that brings 2.0 services to the inbox. The company has access rights/ deals in place with LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Skype and Hoovers.

Xobni said in a statement that it would use the new round to “keep pushing our innovation on uncovering and leveraging all the amazing information and relationships locked up in our overloaded inboxes, particularly in Microsoft Outlook, the most utilized inbox in the world.”

Xobni has been downloaded 1.5 million times, and the company is currently running trials with Fortune 500 companies.

More details on Xobni at QBase.