Simplified Secures $8.5 Million Seed Round

SAN FRANCISCO &&num;8212&semi; Simplified, an AI-powered content creation, and marketing platform that&&num;8217&semi;s looking to take on Canva, announced an &dollar;8&period;5 million seed funding round led by Craft Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures and Wing Venture Capital&period; The round also included investors Uncorrelated Ventures, 8-Bit Capital, Mads Johnsen (CPO, Calm), Manik Gupta (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft) Ankur Nagpal (Founder of Teachable, Vibe Capital)&period;&NewLine;<div class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1">&NewLine;Brands and content creators around the world are using Simplified to create multi-channel marketing campaigns at lightning speed&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re building a space where teams can come together, unleash their creativity, and create more content— while spending less time and money&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re dedicated to making content creation seamless and accessible for teams everywhere,&&num;8221&semi; says Simplified CEO and co-founder KD Deshpande&period;&NewLine;</div>&NewLine;<div class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1">&NewLine;The investment will further Simplified&&num;8217&semi;s mission of making content creation fast, automated, and affordable with more templates, one-click video tools, and no-code design features&period; The funding will also amplify Simplified&&num;8217&semi;s machine learning models, enhance the AI copywriting experience, and expand support for languages like Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, French, and Malay&period; In just 5 months, Simplified has soared in popularity globally, surpassing 150,000 new users and generating 300 million words through its AI copywriting tool&period;&NewLine;When Simplified launched last year, the pandemic had led to more users creating and consuming content online faster than ever&period; But current tools kept content creation siloed, slow, and disconnected&period; Now, in a remote-first world, the need for a seamlessly connected, high-speed marketing workflow is more apparent than ever&period; As the next generation of marketers demands speed and simplicity, Simplified is betting that it&&num;8217&semi;s all-in-one platform, powered by AI, will bring content creation into the future&period;&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;As content creation emerges as a necessity for businesses everywhere, we&&num;8217&semi;re excited to bring creators a product that can replace all the single-purpose tools that are slowing them down and costing them money&period; Instead of switching between a design app, a copywriting app, a publishing platform, and a communication tool, Simplified connects people with their teams and their customers so they can start and finish creating in the same tab and get work done faster,&&num;8221&semi; says Ajay Yadav, Simplified COO and Co-Founder&period;&NewLine;Aimed at marketers and content creators, Simplified is one of the only design tools to use AI and machine learning to automate every aspect of the content creation process&period; For example, the app can automatically generate shareable content, complete with copy, images, layouts, and sizing, all created by the platform&&num;8217&semi;s AI assistant&period; The app&&num;8217&semi;s additional benefit for marketers is its ability to rapidly scale one piece of content into thousands as their marketing needs grow&period; The platform also has real-time collaboration tools and integrations with popular apps like Google Drive and Shopify to streamline the complicated workflows that make marketing challenging to manage and scale among teams&period;&NewLine;</div>&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;&NewLine;

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