Lino, a decentralized autonomous video startup, announced today that it has secured $20 million in funding through a private token sale. This round was led by ZhenFund and other investors including FBG Capital, DFund, and INBlockchain. Lino uses blockchain technology to ensure content value can be
Zesty.io, a company that automates building and maintaining web content for businesses, secured $1.5 million in seed financing, led by ClearVision Equity Partners. Zesty.io’s web content management system automates search engine optimization, infrastructure scaling, and content distribution procedures, allowing users to manage content for multiple websites,
Media company Heyou Media raised a new round of financing from an undisclosed investor. Founded in late 2016 by Tom Skerritt, Heyou Media, Inc., is an aggregator of new media visual entertainment content, including music, theatrical long-form, short-form video, web series, virtual reality and special interest
Content management developer platform Contentful completed $28 million in Series C financing, led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Benchmark Capital, Balderton Capital, and Point Nine Capital. Contentful’s platform enables web and mobile developers to manage, integrate, and deliver digital content to any kind of
Email content management platform Sendwithus announced it secured $5 million in Series A financing, led by BlueRun Ventures, with participation from Initialized Capital, Acequia Capital, Baseline Ventures, SV Angel, Maiden Lane, and Y Combinator. Sendwithus.com’s API, intuitive, visual editor, and built-in device testing are designed for
Play for Medium Writers is a Chrome extension that adds audio to Medium articles with one click. Once users have downloaded the program, they have access to the Publish with Audio option when publishing a Medium article. Play for Medium Writers currently supports more than
Connatix completed $15 million in financing led by Volition Capital. Connatix is a complete advertising solution for advertisers and publishers to display branded content across web and mobile media properties. Its platform allows publishers to create native ad placements, while its marketplace connects them to thousands
Vemba announced the close of $6 million in Series A financing led by Time Warner Investments, with participation from Upfront Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and SpotX. Vemba is a next generation video distribution and content discovery platform that enables content publishers to directly control all
ContentStudio is a web app-based marketing product that provides a data-driven content suite to grow social accounts. This complete social media marketing suite features topic discovery, editorial planner, data insights, content scheduler, and automation tools that save time and increase productivity for users’ content marketing
ICX Media closed $6.6 million in Series A financing led by Grotech Ventures, with participation from NRV, PJC, and Avonlea Capital. ICX Media’s software and data platform helps independent video content creators find their audience and monetize their creations by allowing content creators to more effectively