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BUSINESS·1 min read·Sep 24, 2020

Cameo Completed $50M Series B Funding Round

Cameo, a Chicago, IL-primarily based startup that connects enthusiasts directly with their favorite popular culture personalities, closed $50m Series B financing. The spherical was led through Kleiner Perkins with participation through The Chernin Group, Spark Ventures, Bain Capital and Series A lea

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Cameo, a Chicago, IL-primarily based startup that connects enthusiasts directly with their favorite popular culture personalities, closed $50m Series B financing.

The spherical was led through Kleiner Perkins with participation through The Chernin Group, Spark Ventures, Bain Capital and Series A lead investor Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The business enterprise intends to apply the brand new funds to decorate the platform and enlarge its domestic and worldwide presence.

Co-based by CEO Steven Galanis, CTO Devon Townsend and Martin Blencowe in 2017, Cameo presents a service allowing customers to book customized video greetings from celebrities.

In years, the business enterprise has constructed a expertise portfolio of more than 15,000 VIPs and fulfilled greater than 275,000 requests starting from birthday and good luck messages to prom invitations, marriage proposals, infant gender reveals and beyond.

The business enterprise plans to growth headcount at a 20-person Los Angeles workplace that opened in February, ramping up current operations withinside the UK and Australia, and establishing key new markets in Europe, Asia and South America.

It additionally has sixty six personnel at its headquarters in Chicago.

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