Tech Company Financing Transactions
Academia Funding Round
Tencent Holdings and Social Discovery Ventures joined a $16 million Series C venture round for Academia. This venture round was announced on 4/1/2019.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
4/1/2019
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$16,000,000
Round
Series C
Investors
Tencent Holdings (Lead Investor)
Proceeds Purpose
The company intends to use the funds to invest in the use of natural language processing and machine learning to recommend papers relevant to an academic's research and to continue investing in its mobile app as well as its premium product suite.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
EdTech
Mailing Address
580 California St. 400
San Francisco, CA 94104
USA
San Francisco, CA 94104
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Overview
Academia is a platform for sharing academic research. Academics have uploaded 28 million papers, and 81 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Richard Price
Chief Operating Officer
Mitchell Fox
Chief Technical Officer
Benjamin Lund
Chief Technical Officer
Nate Sullivan
Vice President
Adi Raval
VP - Engineering
Yuri Niyazov
VP - Engineering
Max Schwartz
VP - Finance
Paul Gu
VP - Human Resources
Kari Hill
VP - Human Resources
Stuart Liroff
VP - Product Management
Jason Kellerman
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