Google Ventures leads the $1.5m series A round for Miso, having the month before invested in the portfolio company's $600,000 seed round.

Hearst Interactive Media, a division of publishing group Hearst, has joined Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of search group Google, in backing Miso Media, a US-based company for helping people play the guitar.

Google Ventures led the $1.5m series A round for Miso, having the month before invested in the portfolio company’s $600,000 seed round.

Joe Kraus, partner at Google Ventures, and Scott Wolfgang, director at Hearst, will also join Miso’s board.

 

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.