Jun 2, 2011

SEO Platform Altruik Raises an Additional $2.8M June 2, 2011 By PEHub Administrator Five-year-old, New York-based SEO platform Altruik has landed $2.8 million in a second round of funding from existing investors: DFJ Gotham Ventures, GSA Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures, and Hub Angels Investment Group. In addition, Centurion Venture Partners and New York Angels have joined as new investors. PRESS RELEASE: Altruik, the next generation automated SEO platform, has raised nearly $3 million in its second round of funding. The current financing includes commitments from all existing investors: DFJ Gotham Ventures, GSA Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures, and Hub Angels Investment Group. In addition, Centurion Venture Partners and New York Angels have joined as new investors. Altruik has developed an advanced automated platform that streamlines the SEO process, and simplifies the implementation of much needed SEO transformations on a client’s native website. The company’s solution not only improves SEO capabilities, but also simultaneously complies with the terms and conditions of the leading search engines. By automating SEO on-page best practices and enhancing visibility of a client’s Web pages, Altruik’s platform boosts search engine page results and click-through rates. “This additional funding enables us to invest in sales and marketing and enhance our industry leading SEO platform,” says Eric Gertler, CEO of Altruik. “We remain focused on our mission to help clients streamline their manual SEO work by implementing the needed changes to increase traffic and click-through rates from search engines.” Altruik’s automated SEO platform easily integrates with all content management systems. Clients benefit from its automated platform by eliminating the expense of fixing problems manually or diverting valuable technology resources to make these changes one-by-one. The company’s ability to automatically implement necessary changes on a client’s native website using a 100% search engine compliant method differentiates it from other companies in the SEO industry. “Altruik is pushing the limits of automated SEO practices to provide clients with the most comprehensive technology available,” said Ross Goldstein, Co-founder and Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures. “Altruik’s unique positioning as the only SEO company that seamlessly implements needed SEO changes in a search-compliant manner will enable it to capture more of this growing market.” Altruik is already working with many leading e-commerce companies, including some of today’s most recognized brands in the home improvement and retail clothing areas. To date, the company’s clients are already finding much success in reaching a larger number of customers from search engine traffic. About Altruik Altruik is focused on making SEO easy and scalable for e-commerce companies and online businesses. Utilizing its patent pending technology platform, the company implements SEO changes directly to a client’s native site in a way that is fully compliant with leading search engines. Moreover, Altruik’s technology platform increases visibility of a client’s pages in the search engines, so that companies can generate more site traffic and higher click-through rates from the search engines. It is led by a seasoned group of Internet and marketing executives, as well as world renowned SEO strategists, technologists, and network architects. For more information, please visit: www.altruik.com. © 2015 Buyouts Insider / Argosy Group LLC