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.
On the platform, authors can join a personal book group, lead virtual discussion groups, share exclusive interviews, engage in video-based Q&A’s and more, bringing their content to life for readers who want to dive deeper into a text with the ultimate authority.
FinSMEs
28/09/2020