Plazes Raises First Round

Plazes AG, a Zurich-based mobile social navigation startup, has raised Euro 2.7 million in first-round funding from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. It previously had raised angel capital from such individuals as Esther Dyson, Marc Andreessen and Martin Varsavsky. www.plazes.com< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />