WattPad Raises $3.5 million in Funding

WattPad announced Monday that it had just finished up its Series A round, which was led by led by Union Square Ventures, along with W. Media Ventures and Golden Venture Partners, and that it now had an extra $3,500,000 to fund its epxansion.

The online writing community plans to use the funds to hire more staff. It wants to improve the user experience and expand Wattpad’s mobile presence. I’m told that the developers have some amazing ideas that they plan to implement which will fully take advantage of Wattpad’s growing number of mobile users, and rise in popularity of social networks.

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