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SaaS startups have become the darling of Venture Capital investors, especially in the Content industry. Over the past decade, software has proverbially “eaten the world” and SaaS companies have scaled to become unicorn corporations in staggering amounts of time. In this article, we are examining 12 VC funded SaaS startups in the Content industry. Adventr
Users of Adventr have access to a platform for creating, sharing, and analyzing interactive, viewer-driven video content. Its own SaaS network with drag and drop functionality serves as the company's main offering and makes it easier to produce and distribute interactive video. With the capacity to alter the activities of the video or interact with characters in real time, Adventr's viewers are more engaged across all metrics. Ad networks, publishers, and other distribution channels are available for its video content. Company details:
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Baffle
Without affecting the user experience, Baffle protects data in the cloud and when shared throughout the whole analytics pipeline. Only the Baffle Data Protection Service, which has been tested in large-scale environments, de-identifies sensitive data without requiring application changes, enabling businesses to responsibly move more data, more quickly, to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Company details:
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Cloudsmith
Making Global Distribution and Artifact Management Simple: For developers wishing to build up a safe, cloud-native artifact repository and move from nothing to software delivery worldwide in 60 seconds, Cloudsmith is the best package / artifact management SaaS. Company details:
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Commune
Three University of Tokyo graduates created Commune Inc. in 2018. In San Mateo, it launched its US office in 2022. Launched in early 2019, Commune is a customer success community platform that connects businesses and customers. Company details:
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Contentful
Thirty percent of the Fortune 500 and thousands of companies worldwide benefit from the creation and management of digital experiences for their consumers across all channels thanks to Contentful, the content platform for digital-first businesses. Greater speed and scalability are possible than with conventional CMS solutions. Contentful organizes material into a single hub, formats it for usage across all digital channels, and effortlessly connects with thousands of other applications via open APIs. The platform of Contentful is used by organizations like Chanel, Bang & Olufsen, Shiseido, Shopify, BP, and many more. Company details:
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Contents.com
Every company that wants to succeed in the digital environment needs to provide high-quality content. Companies struggle, though, when it comes to producing interesting digital content. They struggle to scale content production, localize material into multiple languages, and create conventional content since it is expensive and requires a lot of time, money, and skills. Because of this, we created a SaaS platform that supports businesses throughout the whole content lifecycle, from inspiration to creation to transformation, thereby reducing their workload. a system that combines the knowledge of thousands of copywriters from across the world with automated article generation technologies. Along with the platform, Contents.com also caters to big businesses, providing them with sophisticated, completely configurable technology solutions for the whole automation of their content generation. Company details:
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Leadoo Marketing Technologies
The Nordic region's fastest-growing MarTech firm is Leadoo Marketing Technologies. Leadoo, which was founded in 2018, has over 750 clients worldwide and has effectively converted up to 6X more sales leads than in the past. Leadoo, the world's first and only lead-driven marketing platform, is a straightforward toolbox we offer to help you convert inactive website users into qualified leads in a personable and interactive manner. By doing this, we assist businesses in increasing lead generation, converting more qualified applications, and enhancing customer service using bots and humans. Leadoo was created with one goal in mind: outcomes. It offers everything you need to boost your marketing ante and surpass sales goals. Our goal is to improve marketing and sales performance by fostering deep connections between businesses and their clients. Company details:
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Niio
The largest digital art distribution network in the world is called Niio: (Mall Powered by SAAS) A purpose-built network or platform that connects everyone involved in preserving, promoting, and profiting from digital art The largest community of eminent worldwide artists, curators, and galleries - The largest inventory of premium video and media art available on demand - A high-end, lifestyle and art company that pioneered the genre a comprehensive technological framework supporting the entire lifecycle of a digitally created work, from storage and self-publishing to rights-managed distribution and, finally, the playback of multi-format art on any type of display, is supported by a blockchain-enabled commerce engine and a stack of specialized software tools. In our opinion, the loud digital world of today is giving way to a new visual culture that may inspire and unite people. We built Niio to become the go-to platform for this media and the benchmark for interacting with people worldwide. Company details:
Prismic
We want to make it easier for developers, marketers, and content teams to update online material while also making their jobs more pleasurable. Prismic offers a distinct content management paradigm, managing content assets rather than websites, and making this material available through a REST API for apps and websites to consume as an alternative to what they refer to as "CMS Hell" (meaning websites built using typical CMSs). The service is accessible via a SaaS model. They cite the technical flexibility (which makes them target developers of all languages, including native mobile ones), the design flexibility (which makes them target developers who are also interested in the newest front-end tech, like WebGL for example), and their unique approach to managing content in their back-office, which they refer to as the "writing-room," as reasons for their positions. One of the benefits of their content management strategy is that they publish content updates through "content releases," making it simple for users to preview upcoming material in their applications and schedule content updates. Additionally, they offer tools for versioning and tracking changes, claiming that no data is ever lost and that you can always examine recent events (they have a visual diff feature to view changes). In order for content authors to collaborate on projects, the program also includes collaboration capabilities. A prismic.io content repository includes an API browser to assist developers in designing their queries in addition to the writing-room (content management back-office) and API. You can view one here: https://lesbonneschoses.prismic.io/api. The team also created open-source development kits, blank starter kits, examples, and examples in most major technologies, and they regularly release new ones. There is a ton of information on their website, including text manuals and video guides. Although it is free while the user's project is still in development, the program generates revenue by selling plans based on the number of members on a repository. However, it is now in beta form, free to use, and invite-only (but the product is known to roll out invites very quickly). Company details:
Tezign
Tezign is the fast-growing tech startup in China. With the vision Technology Empowers Imagination, Tezign aims to build the digital infrastructure of content experience. Tezign helps medium to large enterprises to achieve one-stop content creation, management, generation and optimization with advanced AI and data intelligence technology.Tezign is also the first Chinese mainland technology company to systematically launch Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions. Tezign has partnered with over 8000 of brands in different industries such as Alibaba, ByteDance, Unilever, Shiseido, Bayer, Budweiser, Ant Financial, Ping An, Nestle, Tencent, Loreal etc. Tezign is backed by world recognized investors including Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Hearst Ventures, Linear Capital, among others. Tezign has been a unicorn in ConTech industry. In 2017, Tezign and Tongji University jointly founded the Design A.I. Laboratory and graduate program for applied research to bring machine learning and A.I. technology to content creation and experience design. Tezign was awarded as TOP.1 in China in the list of The Information 50 startups, Fast Company top 50 of China's best innovative companies, and Forbes High Growth Gazelle. Company details:

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(Bloomberg) -- A Harvard University-educated designer has turned his content marketing platform into a unicorn, helped by investors betting on enterprise software as the next big opportunity in China’s tech industry. (Bloomberg) -- A Harvard University-educated designer has turned his content marketing platform into a unicorn, helped by investors betting on enterprise software as the next big opportunity in China’s tech industry. Tezign , which connects designers with businesses, completed the first tranche of its Series D round led by Temasek Holdings Pte, boosting its valuation to more than $1 billion, the startup said. It received about $40 million from the Singaporean state investment firm and other backers. Founded in 2015 by Fan Ling , who has a doctorate from Harvard, Tezign is a mash-up of online recruiter Upwork Inc. and Adobe Inc.’s marketing cloud: it matches creative talent with brands and marketers, and customers also use its platform to manage their digital content. The Shanghai-based outfit is among a crop of startups aspiring to be the next Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. for China, a nascent $12 billion arena for enterprise software. “There is a clear trend about the digital transformation of businesses in China,” Fan said in an interview. “Brands who used to rely on big tech companies for sales now want to build their own consumer database, and have power over content production and distribution. Every brand can operate like a mini version of Alibaba.”
Since Beijing began its campaign to rein in big tech nearly a year ago, investors have been turning away from the once red-hot consumer internet sector. Instead, they are plowing money into enterprise software and advanced technologies like chips and autonomous driving -- key initiatives in Xi Jinping’s drive to achieve technology self-sufficiency in China. Tezign’s latest fundraising comes after it completed in March a $100 million Series C round led by Sequoia China and Temasek. Last month, digital signature startup Esign also hit unicorn status after raising 1.2 billion yuan ($188 million) from venture firms including Sequoia China and IDG Capital. Tezign will use the proceeds to strengthen its sales network and technology capabilities, Fan said. The 40-year-old founder expects revenue to double to at least $40 million this year, adding he’s in no rush to make a profit. The startup intends to increase its large-enterprise clients -- which currently include Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Unilever Plc -- to 1,000 in three years, up from 200, he said. The firm plans to generate 30% of revenue from outside China by the same period, as it ventures into markets like Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. Fan taught at the University of California at Berkeley and a Beijing college for seven years before starting Tezign with several students. “When we first met with Dr. Fan back in 2015, Tezign was still pre-revenue and trying to find its product-market fit,” said Peter Cheng, whose Eminence Ventures invested in its Series A round. “But with his background, it’s obvious the founder-market fit was there.”
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Tezign has garnered an undisclosed sum in a Series C2 round led by Singapore’s Temasek, while Tengyin Caizhi has bagged over 100 million yuan ($15 million) from Tencent and Gaorong Capital. Temasek leads Series C2 round funding in Tezign
Singapore state investor Temasek Holding Limited has led a Series C2 round in Chinese creative marketing contents and solutions provider Tezign, the investee announced on Thursday. Sequoia Capital China, Hearst Ventures, and three other existing backers — Linear Capital, Eminence Capital, and Cherubic Ventures — also made follow-on investments in the round. It also attracted new investors including SoftBank’s China-based arm SBCVC, Hong Kong’s tech-innovation driven Unicorn Capital Partners, and C Ventures. New economy-based investment bank MM Capital facilitated the transaction. The fresh vehicle brings Tezign’s Series C funding to $100 million. The company had, in August last year, secured “tens of millions of US dollars” in a Series C1 round of financing led by Sequoia Capital China. The round was joined by returning investors such as the American media and publishing giant Hearst Corporation’s investment arm Hearst Ventures. Set up in 2017 in Shanghai, Tezign claims to have served over 8,000 medium and large-sized giants such as Starbucks, Unilever, Bayer, Nestle, Shiseido, Ant Financial, Tencent, and Ping An. Linear Capital is a long-term backer in Tezign. It had participated in Tezign’s Series B round in 2018, Series A round in 2016, and angel round in 2015. Tengyin bags over $15m Series A+
Tengyin Caizhi has pocketed over 100 million yuan ($15 million) in a Series A+ round funding from its majority shareholder Tencent with participation from returning investor Gaorong Capital. Gaorong Capital, an early- and growth-stage investment firm aimed at new consumption and technology, had exclusively invested in Tengyin’s Series A round in January 2020, it said in a WeChat post on Thursday. The funds will be used to spruce up a slew of programmes like pipeline products, talent recruitment, and R&D capacity. With headquarters in Southeast China’s Shenzhen, Tengyin is a fintech startup delivering software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools and services. It supports enterprises to maximise marketing activity and brand marketing on Tencent’s social media platform WeChat. High-tech firm QTrade is the largest shareholder in Tengyin owning 90% stake, while Tencent is the third-largest shareholder with 2.97% equity interest. Tencent invested in Tengyin’s seed round back in December 2018. Sign up for our newsletter - The Daily Brief
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China Digest: Temasek leads funding in Tezign; Tengyin bags over $15m

Tezign has bagged an undisclosed amount in its series C2 round led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings.

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Tezign, a Chinese startup that offers creative marketing content and solutions, has raised tens of millions of U.S. dollars in a Series C1 round of financing led by Sequoia Capital China, the firm announced in a WeChat post on Monday. The startup said that the new financing was completed by the end of 2019. All its former investors re-upped in the Series C1 round. These investors included Hearst Ventures, the venture capital platform of America’s media and publishing giant Hearst Corporation, Chinese early-stage VC Eminence Ventures, US and China-focused angel fund Cherubic Ventures, as well as frontier tech-focused Linear Venture, among others. Shanghai-based Tezign serves about 8,000 medium and large-sized enterprises, such as Alibaba and its fintech arm Ant Group, Tencent, British-Dutch consumer goods firm Unilever, Chinese dairy products maker Mengniu Dairy, and Nestlé.

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