Jungle Creations, a London, UK-based content creator for the social age, raised £3m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Edge Investments (Edge Creative Enterprise Fund and the Edge Performance VCT), with participation from John Smith, former COO of Burberry Group (2013 -2016) and CEO of BBC Worldwide (2004-2012).
The company intends to use the funds to grow its existing offices in New York and Los Angeles as well as Toronto, Canada, with a focus on building its global audience while tapping into local market opportunities.
Set up by 27-year-old serial entrepreneur Jamie Bolding in 2014, Jungle Creations is a digital media owner, having created and commercialized some of Facebook’s most popular food, beauty and lifestyle brands such as VT and Twisted, amassing over 85 million followers, and an in-house creative and production agency, ‘Treehouse’, which has conceptualized and distributed high-quality social media video content for some of the world’s biggest and most influential brands including Heinz, McDonald’s and Virgin, generating over 1.3 billion views.
FinSMEs
03/12/2018