Numobiq Raises $4.5 Million From Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky

Numobiq, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based startup, has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding from Benchmark Capital to develop a platform that will let feature phones interact more easily with the Internet.

General Partner Mitch Lasky, the former CEO of Jamdat Mobile, said to find out if it’s raining, people shouldn’t have to load a browser, click on weather and then enter a zip code — an icon should be on the phone’s desktop that can load the information immediately. “The data services model is broken. Today, you are doing WAP or downloadable clients like Java or Brew. Those are ideas we took from the desktop PC, and neither are suited for the mobile world. It

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