Apester Raises $5M in Series A

What does Apester do?

Apester, is a leading digital storytelling platform for publishers. It is changing the digital storytelling experience by empowering its readers to take a more active tole in the content they consume. The company believes that the evolution of digital storytelling revolves around the integration of the reader’s voice into the content. Its interactive content platform allows anyone to easily and freely create, embed and share the related and interactive content into articles and posts in just a few seconds. If a user wants a better engagement, circulation, virality, native ad campaigns and monetizing results, then Apester is the right place for you. This storytelling platform is serving some biggest names in the industry such as TimeOut, AOL, Telegraph and plenty more.

How much Apester was funded?

Apester raised $5M in Series A funding on July 8^th, 2015 from Mangrove Capital Partners, Morris Kahn, Giora Kaplan, Tal Simantov and Tal Kerret.

Previous funding

$100k in Seed funding on January 4, 2011 from the investor UpWest Labs

$1M in Angel round on July 17, 2011 from Bernardo Investment and Daniel Zadok

$3.5M in Series A funding on May 10, 2015 from the investors Mangrove Capital Partners and Wellborn Ventures.

What is next for Apester?

Apester plans to use the funding raised in the latest round to grow the company across business development, operations and marketing. As part of the funding, Mangrove Capital the lead investor in the round, the company’s partner Roy Saar will join the board of directors of Apester.

More about Apester

Apester was founded in 2014, by Daniel Zadok, Dan Shafir, Edi Dubinin and Moti Cohen. It has its headquarters in New York, New York. This company is ushering in the next gen of digital storytelling b placing the reader at the center of the editorial coverage. It is one of the fastest growing digital platforms in the world, having more than 200M monthly impressions and over 400 leading publishers using its platform.