Maker Media plans to use the O'Reilly Media-backed funding round to help build out its content.
Maker Media, a US-based platform connecting inventors and product developers, has raised $5m in funding from investors including O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures (OATV), the investment arm of media company O’Reilly, TechCrunch reported today.
The equity portion of the round also featured Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, Azure Capital and Floodgate, while venture capital bank Square 1 provided debt financing.
Maker was spun-out of O’Reilly Media in January 2013 with $5m from OATV and Floodgate. It runs a range of media-based subsidiaries including…
