{"id":121436,"date":"2021-04-11T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/no-code-publishing-platform-shorthand-raises-8m"},"modified":"2021-04-11T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T18:23:24","slug":"no-code-publishing-platform-shorthand-raises-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/no-code-publishing-platform-shorthand-raises-8m","title":{"rendered":"No-code publishing platform Shorthand raises $8M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-code-publishing-platform-shorthand-raises-8m.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shorthand.com\/\">Shorthand<\/a>, the Australian startup behind a no-code platform that allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories, has raised $10 million Australian (just under $8 million U.S.) from Fortitude Investment Partners.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ricky Robinson told me via email that this is Shorthand\u2019s first institutional round of funding, and that the company has been profitable for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky enough to grow to where we are today through an entirely inbound, organic model that leverages the beautiful content that our customers create in Shorthand to generate leads,\u201d Robinson wrote. \u201cBut we\u2019ve been testing other channels with some success and the time is right to ramp up those other marketing initiatives. That\u2019s where we\u2019ll be spending this funding, while also investing heavily in our product to keep Shorthand at the cutting edge of storytelling innovation for the web.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorthand, the Australian startup behind a no-code platform that allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories, has raised $10 million Australian (just under $8 million U.S.) from Fortitude Investment Partners. CEO Ricky Robinson told me via email that this is Shorthand\u2019s first institutional round of funding, and that the company has been profitable for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}