TheAlarmClock.com reports that CoComment, a service that helps track and store blog comments, has raised $1.5 million.
CoComment, the blog comment tracking service that emerged from a Swisscom project, has raised $1.5M from Netage Capital Partners, a Japanese venture fund owned by investment company Netage Group. It acquired a 40 percent stake in the Swiss venture.
Netage has holdings in several RSS projects for the Japanese market, according to its website. It is currently launching CoComment in Japan, said Swisscom in a statement. The Swiss telco also said there had been interest from investors and companies in Europe and the US, but that the Japanese investor brought the "broadest" experience and most "success" in the Internet market to the venture.
CoComment has some very active users. At least twenty of the top users have made over 1,000 comments using CoComment. Jackyn from New Zealand has made 3,700 comments.
