The web data collection company added Tencent to its investor base in a series A round that followed a June 2015 investment by Bloomberg.
China-based internet conglomerate Tencent co-led a $10m series A round for US-based web data gathering tool Diffbot yesterday.
Felicis Ventures co-led the round, which included fellow venture capital firms Amplify Ventures and Valor Capital, as well as angel investors Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Lee and Georges Harik.
The funding will allow Diffbot to build a robot that scrapes the web’s mass of unstructured data, structuring it within its Global Index database, which it claims surpasses the size of Google’s Knowledge Graph.
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