Wondery, a leading podcast network, raised $5 million in a Series A round, led by Greycroft’s Alan Patricof, Lerer Hippeau, and Advancit Capital. Other investors in the company include BAM Ventures, Water Tower Ventures, Fox Networks Group, BDMI, and industry experts Stanley Shuman and Michael
Stitcher, an on-demand Internet service for news and information radio and podcasts, released an Alexa Skill version that allows users to listen to Stitcher’s podcasts with their Amazon Echo device. Stitcher for Podcasts on Amazon Echo was invented by Jeff Gross and Todd Pringle.
From Startups For Startups is an education and growth hacking site offering 50 hours of curated interviews and podcasts where entrepreneurs can learn from other makers. Users can easily filter each video by title, release date, views, and length for access as an Apple Music
Growth Marketing Today is a podcast for marketers, designers, and product owners that features veterans of such startups as Shopify and 500px. The show aims to provide an insider look at the growth process and growth engine of today's top startup. Growth Marketing Today was
Anchor completed $10 million in Series A financing led by GV. Accel Partners, Betaworks, The Chernin Group, Eniac Ventures, and Homebrew Ventures also participated. Anchor is a podcast app that layers community features on top of audio streaming. It lets creators record directly from their
Listen Notes is a web-based podcast search engine that allows podcast listeners to find podcasts and episodes by people, places or topics by indexing the metadata of podcasts. Listen Notes 2.0 was developed by Wenbin Fang.