Pepper Content Bags $4.2 Mn To Expand Services To Southeast Asia
Summary
The company also looks to introduce content categories like video and audio Mumbai-based content marketplace Pepper Content has raised $4.2 Mn in Series A funding round led by Lightspeed India to expand its presence into Southeast Asia and enter newer content categories like video and audio. Several prominent angel investors across India and Silicon Valley also participated in this round, This includes Upwork founder Beerud Seth, Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, Unacademy founder Gaurav Munjal and Haptik founder Aakrit Vaish, former Times Internet’s CSO Miten Sampat, Caparo Group’s Akhil Paul, AngelList’s Utsav Somani and former SAP Labs Indian MD Dilip Khandelwal. The company claims that nearly 30K creative professionals such as content writers, graphic designers, language specialists, and editors have applied to be part of Pepper Content, but it only works with the top 10% talent. Commenting on the fundraise, Singla said, “Our mission is to disrupt the entire content creation industry at scale and create a stronger, high quality, and more organized ecosystem for content creators. Imagine us being able to build virtual content teams for any company globally, by providing them a product that simplifies content operations and gives the customer the ability to strategize, create, distribute and manage all their content projects at one place.” Prior to this, Pepper Content had raised INR 2.2 Cr as a part of its seed funding round led by Titan Capital in February 2020.