Pepper Content Raises $14.3 Million In Series A Funding Round

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Pepper Content on Thursday introduced to have $14.3 million in Series A funding spherical led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The spherical additionally witnessed participation from Tanglin Venture Partners, Lightspeed, Titan Capital. Gokul Rajaram, Ritesh Agarwal, Abhinav Sinha, Ankur Nagpal, Dheeraj Pandey, Ashish Gupta, and Kunal Shah additionally participated within the spherical. The firm plans to bolster its presence within the US market together with diversifying choices to newer classes like graphic design, language translations, and video content material creation. The firm has grown 16 occasions by way of income within the final 14 months alone. It goals for a excessive double-digit ARR progress by the top of this 12 months.

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“One can not think about a world with out content material, it’s on the core of communication, commerce, and relationships – which encapsulates every thing we do on the planet. At Pepper Content, we wish to make this platform a superpower for manufacturers and creators alike. The final expertise revolution that got here out of India was Infosys, TCS for tech expertise within the Nineties. Pepper Content is right here to unleash the subsequent one by enabling high-quality inventive and advertising expertise to get entry to international alternatives,” mentioned Anirudh Singla and Rishabh Shekhar, co-founders, Pepper Content, in a joint assertion.
“We firmly consider that the way forward for work is on-demand pushed and we love the strategy that Pepper is taking to construct a strong content material advertising stack that helps startups and enterprises to work extra strategically with skilled on-demand freelance expertise and allow workflows and collaboration instruments to create nice high quality content material,”mentioned Anant Vidurpuri, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Pepper has onboarded over 1000 enterprises and fast-growing startups. Pepper Content at the moment works with over 2,500-plus prospects, together with giant enterprises and organisations like Adani Enterprises, NPS Trust, Hindustan Unilever, P&G; monetary companies, and insurance coverage corporations akin to HDFC Bank, CRED, Groww, SBI Mutual Fund, TATA Capital, and know-how companies akin to Binance, Google, and Adobe.
Founded by just lately graduated BITS-Pilani entrepreneurs Anirudh Singla and Rishabh Shekhar of their faculty dorm room, Pepper Content goals to empower content material creators and types alike with know-how on the core of their content material advertising choices. With a imaginative and prescient to construct the world’s largest full-stack content material market, Pepper Content is constructing affect and worth for a $400 billion content material advertising trade, globally. Launched in October 2017 out of a dorm room in BITS Pilani, Pepper Content has grown by leaps and bounds right into a 150-member crew at the moment together with a inventive expertise community of 100,000-plus freelance professionals. The firm builds belief by vetting the inventive professionals within the market and utilizing its personal AI algorithms to make the correct match between enterprise and artistic professionals. The firm has additionally invested in constructing instruments for its freelancers that increase their means and makes them extra productive – and one in every of its key merchandise Peppertype.ai, is presently utilized by over 200,000-plus customers throughout 150 nations and ranks within the Top 3 AI Writing Software class on G2.

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