Melbourne, Australia-based
99designs, an online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic designs, has raised $35M, the firm said Thursday. The round was led by San Francisco-based
Accel Partners, and also included Silicon Valley angels
Michael Dearing (eBay,
Harrison Metal),
Dave Goldberg (Survey Monkey),
Stewart Butterfield (Flickr,
Tiny Speck), and
Anthony Casalena (Squarespace). Accel's Andrew Braccia and Ryan Sweeney join the company's board. 99designs allows users to request designs for logos, web sites, business cards, Wordpress themes, and more.
posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 (Link to more information)
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