GeekChicDaily, a daily email aimed at 18-34 year old men looking to feed their “inner geek,” has raised $1.5 million in new funding led by Revolution Studios Founder Joe Roth and investor Mike Slade with Gamespy founder Mark Surfas, EA and Activision veteran Kathy Vrabeck, Machinima Chairman/CEO Allen DeBevoise, Bob Pittman and Andrew Russell participating in the round. This brings the startup’s total funding to around $3 million. In addition, Ben Lerer, CEO and co-founder of Thrillist, has joined GeekChicDaily as an advisory board member
As stated in the title, GeekChicDaily is a fanboy-focused email newsletter that includes content around geek news, technology and pop culture. Launched in October 2009, GeekChicDaily was co-founded by Peter Y. Levin and Gareb Shamus as a way to bring out the inner geek in 18-34 year old men.
Its looks like in just over a year, GeekChicDaily has built a solid userbase. We’re told that the startup is sending just under 1 million opted in emails per week.
GeekChicDaily another daily newsletter and site focused on everything from video games and toys, to apps, movies and comic books? A trio of media and entertainment industry execs is hoping so, betting that loyal fans of comic industry staple Wizard Magazine will eat up this new property called GeekChicDaily.
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