Startup Apester has raised $17 million in funding
Startup Apester, an audience engagement platform for publishers, said Tuesday it has closed the second tranche of its Series A financing, a $12 million round led by Blumberg Capital. The startup has now raised a total of $17 million from investors that include Mangrove Capital, ex-AOL CMO Tal Simantov, Wix Co-founder Gigi Kaplan, Silverstein Properties President Tal Kerret and Wellborn Ventures, it said in a statement. Apester is used by publishers including Time Inc., AOL, The Daily Telegraph, The Huffington Post, Fox, USA Today, BBC, Sky, Bild and others. The company has more than 50 employees at offices in London, Berlin, Istanbul and Tokyo, as well as a research & development center in Tel Aviv.
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