August 1st, 2012

Content Crunching App Silk Raises $1.6 Million Seed Round

silk-ap

Silk, makers of a free web-based personal database app, today announced a $1.6 million seed funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Atomico, Anil Hansjee, Jens Christensen and Philippe Cases. → Read More

May 18th, 2011

Silk scores seed funding from Atomico, others for content crunching platform

Exclusive – Amsterdam-based startup Silk, which offers a platform that allows content creators to distribute their work on the Web in a more structured manner, has raised €320,000 (approximately $475,000) in early-stage funding from Atomico and a number of individual angel investors, TechCrunch has learned.

Silk, which was originally founded back in 2009, will use the proceeds to finally bring… → Read More

May 18th, 2011

Silk Scores Seed Funding From Atomico, Others For Content Crunching Platform

Exclusive – Amsterdam-based startup Silk, which offers a platform that allows content creators to distribute their work on the Web in a more structured manner, has raised €320,000 (approximately $475,000) in early-stage funding from Atomico and a number of individual angel investors, TechCrunch has learned.

Silk, which was originally founded back in 2009, will use the proceeds to finally bring… → Read More

April 29th, 2008

Super strong artificial silk almost here

Apparently there’s something about spider silk that makes it really strong and really hard to replicate. Scientists have gotten closer to being able to make silk-like material that’s “five times stronger than steel,” according to the BBC. In the past, it’s been too difficult to produce artificial silk in large enough quantities to make it worthwhile, but scientist at… → Read More