Former Apple Employee Raises $1 Million, Makes News Clips Sharable on Pinterest

MAZ Digital Inc., a digital publishing platform for tablet and mobile devices, today announced a $1 million funding round led by Expansion Venture Capital. CEO Paul Canetti, a former Apple employee, co-founded MAZ in 2010 with CIO Simon Baumer and CTO Shikha Arora, who left Adobe for the startup. In that time, the team has come up with something that other publishing apps have missed: the ability to clip individual articles, or parts of articles, from a digital magazine and share them on social networks.

MAZ Digital Inc., a digital publishing platform for tablet and mobile devices, today announced a $1 million funding round led by Expansion Venture Capital. The company plans to expand its team, build new products and increase sales and marketing efforts.

“We have been an almost entirely bootstrapped startup since our launch over two years ago,” Explained MAZ CEO Paul Canetti in a statement. The former Apple employee co-founded MAZ in 2010 with CIO Simon Baumer and CTO Shikha Arora, who left Adobe for the startup.

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