Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe’s $5M ‘Series Awesome’
June 03, 2011 at 00:47 AM EDT
Tablet publishing platform Onswipe is announcing a $5 million round of "Series Awesome" funding today after their one million in seed funding in January. The round will be led by Spark Capital and followed on by Lightbank , investment badass Yuri Milner , Lerer Ventures , Betaworks , Morado , Eniac and Thrive Capital . And they're really calling it a Series Awesome; Co-founder Jason Baptiste explained the need to raise even more cash, "We realized what we are building is a larger opportunity than we ever thought while growing at a breakneck speed. In order to own the market we went out and raised a Series Awesome from the best group of investors possible that share our goal of world domination. And yes...the legal docs actually say Series Awesome."