Silk Closes Raises $1.6M Funding from New Enterprise Associates

Silk, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based platform that allows people to publish their collections, raised $1.6m funding.

Backers included New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom’s venture fund Atomico.

The company intends to use the funds to continue to work on Silk as a platform and to create additional products.

Co-founded by CEO Salar al Khafaji and Lon Boonen, Silk provides a web-based platform that allows content creators to provide their content in a more structured manner on the web by adding facts, text and media and creating overviews, visualisations, maps and overviews.
To date, 16,000 registered users have created more than 300,000 individual pages on the Silk.
Early adopters include digital marketing agencies, venture capital, government, media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Users include The Guardian, a global video services provider, an American digital marketing agency, a large European Union government agency, and hundreds of startups across the EU.

To date, the company has raised $3.7m. Backers also include angel investors.

FinSMEs

07/10/2013

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