Skyfire Labs, makers of the desktop-like mobile web browser Skyfire, today announced $13 million in Series B funding which is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and also includes previous investors - Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures. The company will use the money “towards further rollout of its flagship browser” and will add Lightspeed’s Jake Seid to its Board of Directors.

Mountain View, California-based Skyfire Labs Inc. was founded in April 2006 and had been in stealth mode under the name DVC Labs until January 2008 when it launched its browser in private beta. To date, they’ve raised a total of $17.8 million in VC money.

Commenting on the announcement, Skyfire’s CEO said: “With these funds, we are poised to bring Skyfire to a large number of handsets and launch outside the U.S. Skyfire gives users the freedom to browse whatever they want, and now we can extend our efforts to get Skyfire on a significant market share of smartphones - giving more people what they hunger for.”

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