| Website | scribd.com |
| Blog | scribd.com/blog |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 23 |
| Founded | 3/07 |
| Description | social publishing site |
| Total | $12.8M |
| Seed, 6/06 Y Combinator | $12k |
| Angel, 1/07 The Kinsey Hills Group | $40k |
| Series A, 6/07 The Kinsey Hills Group Redpoint Ventures | $3.71M |
| Series B, 12/08 Charles River Ventures Redpoint Ventures The Kinsey Hills Group | $9M |
Scribd is a social publishing site where people upload and share creative writing and various documents, regardless of file format. The company claims more than 55 million unique users to the network each month and well-known users such as Barack Obama, the World Economic Forum, major publishers and New York Times-bestselling authors.
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Added: 3/25/09| Website | scribd.com |
| Blog | scribd.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | March 6, 2007 |
| Tags | social-publishing, social-media, document-sharing |
Scribd is a social publishing site, where people publish and share original writings and documents. The company claims more than 50 million unique users each month and more than 50,000 new documents uploaded every day. Users include authors, publishers, non-profits, corporations, media companies and millions of “average” people who upload creative writing, research reports, even sheet music and recipes.
As of January 2009, there were 5 million embeds of Scribd’s document reader, iPaper, on tens of thousands of other websites, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic.
iPaper turns PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text and other file formats into a web display that preserves the document’s original design. All documents are indexed during the upload process, which makes them easier to find on Google and other search engines.
Scribd’s vision is to “liberate the written word.”
