Guides.co publishes instructional how-to content broken into digestible, navigable chunks designed to behave more like an interactive website than an e-book. Authors can keep content up to date and choose to offer guides for free or charge for access, with Guides.co taking a transaction fee when publishers charge. Readers must sign up with an email to access content, and the platform provides authors with analytics such as a heat map that shows engagement with different sections. The company relaunched from its previous name, Accel.io, broadening its focus from startup-related content to become a home for any guide-type material and adding branded mini-sites for companies. Guides.co positions those branded mini-sites as potential replacements for corporate resource centers and white paper sections, and plans to monetize by charging businesses for premium features.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Apr 2014