CAMBRIDGE, MA, According to published reports, Shareaholic, a plugin that makes it easy to share content across a variety of social and bookmarking sites, has raised $1.9 million in funding from 500 Startups, Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot), David Cancel, Brian Shin, Roy Rodenstein, Nicole Stata, Nextview Ventures and General Catalyst Partners.

Shareaholic makes content sharing on the web faster and easier, while also making it simple for web publishers, advertisers and mainstream businesses to measure the effectiveness of their content.

With more than 2 million browser plugin installations and hundreds of thousands of publishers using Shareaholic's content sharing tools, Shareholic reaches more than 250 million unique monthly visitors and has permission to an unparalleled amount of aggregate social data and reach to create targetable audiences for advertisers. This data drives even more quality visibility, traffic, leads and views to websites and content through real-time bidding platforms.