Sep 28, 2020

BookClub​, a Salt Lake City, UT-based platform created to scale author-led book clubs, raised $6m in seed funding.Maveron​ led the round, with participation from ​GSV Ventures​, ​Signal Peak Ventures​, and ​Pelion Venture Partners​.Mike Levinthal also joined the round as a private investor.The company will use the funds to establish a portfolio of authors on the platform across both fiction and non-fiction book titles, create cinematic video experiences with authors, and build a community platform for 1:1 interactions with authors and book groups.Led by by David Blake, Eric Sharp, Emily Campbell, the Degreed co-founders and early product leader, respectively, BookClub provides a platform designed to connect readers directly with the author to learn together and inspire life-changing conversation. Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated & summarized by a computer program and has not been created by StartupAround.