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A small Canadian technology company has succeeded in attracting seed capital from a group of 10 high-profile angel investors in Silicon Valley.

StumbleUpon Inc. raised money from a group that includes Google Inc. director Ram Shriram, Google advisor Rajeev Motwani and Lotus Inc. founder Mitch Kapoor.

Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon's chief architect, said raising the little more than US$1-million happened fairly quickly after a couple of casual conversations with venture capital firms in Canada failed to generate much traction.

"When I went into meetings with [the Silicon Valley] guys, I had never seen so many people get so…

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