NewsCred Content Marketer Raises New Funding

Crain’s New York Business: NewsCred, one of the earliest startups to hop on the content marketing bandwagon, has raised $42 million in a Series D investment round that will let the company “aggressively” build its global operations, co-founder and CEO Shafqat Islam wrote in a blog post. The company, founded in 2008, has now raised a total of $88.8 million. San Francisco-based FTV Capital led the round. Existing investors FirstMark Capital, InterWest Partners and Mayfield Fund also took part.