Stronger future for video books as Vook gets $2.5 million
February 20th, 2010 admin
Brad Stone at the Bits Blog of the NY Times reports on Vook raising $2.5 million in seed funding – Now Vook is set to expand, announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from a group of prominent Silicon Valley and New York investors including Ron Conway, Michael Maples and Kenneth Lerer, chairman of The Huffington Post. It’s quite interesting to hear what Brad Inman, Vook’s founder, wants to do with the $…
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