Silk Scores Seed Funding From Atomico, Others For Content Crunching Platform
Summary
Exclusive – Amsterdam-based startup Silk, which offers a platform that allows content creators to distribute their work on the Web in a more structured manner, has raised €320,000 (approximately $475,000) in early-stage funding from Atomico and a number of individual angel investors, TechCrunch has learned. Silk, which was originally founded back in 2009, will use the proceeds to finally bring its technology to market and to scale development efforts. In essence, the company wants to make it easier for people to interact with the ever-growing amount of data that gets continuously published by content creators worldwide. The service is still in private alpha, so to learn more you’ll need to sign up with your email address in order to keep informed about the upcoming launch, or watch the demo video on the Silk website. Aside from the VC firm started by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, Silk’s investor roster includes Floris Rost van Tonningen, co-founder of Hyves (the largest social network in the Netherlands); MetrixLab founder Han de Groot; Hans-Poul Veldhuyzen van Zanten, co-owner of Free Media Group; and Mark de Lange, founding partner of Global Grid Capital.