Reach7 Announces Seed Funding to Expand Its Social Platform
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The founders, Jamie Learmonth and Anton Ygartua, who initially funded the venture through a lump sum investment from their digital agency Boxlight Media, acknowledge that although language barriers and China are huge challenges for businesses expanding their reach globally, there are certainly many more hurdles and the new capital injection will be used to complete the development of new services currently in beta testing and promote them post launch in the coming months.Morning executive discussions debate technology-driven disruptions in many industries, while the afternoons are reserved for the Startup Battlefield, where some 25 new companies will launch for the first time onstage, selected to present from numerous applications received from around the world.The company also offers account setup and business verification, similar to Twitter verified accounts, on Sina Weibo for customers and allows seamless simultaneous posting across both platforms.The founders, Jamie Learmonth and Anton Ygartua, who initially funded the venture through a lump sum investment from their digital agency Boxlight Media, acknowledge that although language barriers and China are huge challenges for businesses expanding their reach globally, there are certainly many more hurdles and the new capital injection will be used to complete the development of new services currently in beta testing and promote them post launch in the coming months.The latest funding round of £400,000 came from a group of investors led by Jamie True and including Jon Claydon and Jack Bekhor.About Reach7Reach7 is a platform which makes it easy and cost effective to expand your social reach on a local or global scale.The platform aims to tackle some key pain points, and is starting with language barriers across the globe along with the difficulties entering Chinese social media.About TechCrunch DisruptTechCrunch Disrupt Europe: London is TechCrunch’s first conference in the UK.Morning executive discussions debate technology-driven disruptions in many industries, while the afternoons are reserved for the Startup Battlefield, where some 25 new companies will launch for the first time onstage, selected to present from numerous applications received from around the world.