Pinterest Raises $225M in Funding
Summary
Pinterest, the San Francisco-based platform for discovering things, raised a massive $225m round of funding.The round was led by Fidelity Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, and Valiant Capital Partners.It will use the funds to continue to expand worldwide.Co-founded in March 2010 by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra, Pinterest allows people to discover, collect and organize things such as objects, hobbies, style, projects, activites, etc.The platform is available for the Web, Android, and IOS in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German.
Funding
Amount
$225.0M
Total raised
Date
October 24, 2013
Announcement date
Investors
Techcrunch, VentureBeat
Lead investors
Company
https://pinterest.com
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