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.

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The integration with LinkedIn incorporates key contact information into the Xobni sidebar. Xobni users, via the LinkedIn API, will now see a contact’s current employer, job title, link to their LinkedIn profile, and contact photo.

Xobni launched to the public 45 days ago, and the service has received a lot of positive press. Xobni acts as a plugin to Outlook, delivering to users semantic information in the sidebar that focused on improving email management and workflow.

Other improvements with the new release include performance enhancements, new keyboard shortcuts and folder selection.

Unfortunately I’ve never been able to try Xobni because it’s an Outlook only package, but co-founder Matt Brezina is in Melbourne at the moment and I’ve invited him to MTUB, so if I do get a chance of seeing him the one question I’ll be asking: when might we see Xobni for Thunderbird or Mac Mail? I know I’m not the only one who’d like to see a Mac version

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Vator.tv has signed a deal with ProQuest, a company that creates microfilm presentations for educational institutions. ProQuest will send out some of Vator.tv’s interviews with entrepreneurs to various universities around America. The interviews focus on starting and managing online businesses and handling the accompanying funding concerns.

Vator.tv describes itself as an “emerging tech company social network.” Today, for example, the front page features an interview with Xobni CEO Matt Brazina. The site aims to help tech start-ups get in touch with investors and become more visible in the public eye through an open ranking system of company profiles.

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