• Vidsy

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2017

  Vidsy operates a video advertising production platform and global creator network that helps brands, including Fortune 500 companies, produce video and digital content at scale. The company pairs brands with creators to deliver digital-first video ads and aims to power a sustainable creator economy. Vidsy plans to use new capital to accelerate transatlantic market expansion and further develop its platform and services for both brands and creators. The business emphasizes ecommerce-driven demand for digital video advertising and positions its model as a fast, creative solution for online marketing. Founded in 2014 and based in London, Vidsy has attracted strategic investors supporting its international growth ambitions. Vidsy is a London-based tech startup that operates a creator network. Led by co-founder and CEO Gerard Keeley, the company enables brands to connect with creators and crowdsource the production of micro-video content. It focuses on mobile-first video campaigns in formats such as GIF, square, vertical and animation. Clients include Unilever, Barclays, Dove, Lenovo, Sony, Lipton and Lynx. Vidsy raised £1.3m in funding and will use the funds to continue to expand operations. Backers named in the article include the Guardian Media Group, Ascension Ventures, Delin Capital, Coral Reef and Force Over Mass.

• import.io

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2016

  Import.io provides a web data integration solution that extracts, prepares and integrates comprehensive web data into customers' analytics platforms and business applications. Founded in 2012 by CEO Gary Read and based in Los Gatos, California, the company also maintains offices in Denver and London, UK. It delivers data from millions of web sources to more than 800 enterprise customers across financial services, retail and consulting industries. The company closed a $15.5M Series B and intends to use the funds to accelerate global growth and expand its product offerings. The Series B was announced in December 2018 and reflects the company’s effort to scale internationally and broaden its product suite. Import.io offers a data extraction platform (including the Import.io Builder and Magic API) that converts websites into APIs and structured outputs like JSON. The company says users created over one million web APIs and extracted data from more than 5.5 billion web pages in 2015. Customers named in the article include Moz and Chegg, and the company is building an ecosystem with partners such as Tableau, Interworks, Silk, and Blockspring. It will use the new funding to further develop its data extraction platform and expand analytics and visualization partnerships. Import.io has maintained an office in San Francisco since 2013 and launched on TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in 2013; the CEO plans to split time between London and San Francisco. The company had previously raised a $4.5M 'seed-plus' round in 2014, bringing total capital raised to date to $17.5M. import.io offers a web data platform that lets developers convert web pages into APIs, effectively providing a bespoke, sandboxed browser for data extraction. The company released a new app version featuring an enhanced “Suggest Data” beta that can extract an entire page with one click and create an API from it. It debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin the prior year. import.io raised a $3 million Seed Plus financing to support growth. The startup says the capital will be used to expand its office and operations in San Francisco. Founder and investor commentary in the article highlights expectations that the product could change how web data is used. import•io provides a cloud-based platform that turns the web into a database, allowing companies, developers and coders to extract, connect and fuse disparate sources of web data. The platform is used for data journalism, retail trend analysis, commercial intelligence for due diligence and personalized events listing services. The company says the product lets customers build and create new data sets and applications from web sources. Founded in June 2012 and led by CEO David White, import•io is based in London, UK. The company raised capital to expand and develop its platform and accelerate growth. The recent funding round totals £600K.

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