Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding
June 24, 2009
We’re not huge fans of press releases, but we want to make sure we get this news out clearly. And here it is: We’ve closed a round of funding from an amazing collection of our friends, family, and colleagues. This gives us the help we need to build the amazing service we’ve got planned. Thanks everyone!
And here’s the old-fashioned release, just off the wire!
San Francisco, Calif. — June 24, 2009 — Small Batch Inc. announced today that they have secured a round of equity funding from a group of investors led by San Francisco-based True Ventures. Small Batch is developing Typekit, a service enabling designers to build sites with web-native typography.
“This funding is the next step in our plan for bringing real typography to the web,” said Bryan Mason, Small Batch co-founder and President . “We want to build a nimble, safe tool that makes it easier for web designers to do amazing design online, and a lot of people believe in that goal. We’re excited and humbled by the team of investors supporting us.”
Tony Conrad of True Ventures leads a team of high-profile investors that also includes:
- Evan Williams, Twitter CEO and Founder
- Caterina Fake, Flickr and Hunch Founder
- Matt Mullenweg, WordPress/Automattic Founder
- Ron Conway, Angel Investor whose early investments include Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal and Twitter
- Chris Sacca, Lowercase Capital
- Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, Freestyle Capital
“Typography is the last missing piece of great web design,” said Jeffrey Veen, Small Batch co-founder and CEO. “We’re working closely with type designers to create a new market for their work.”
Typekit will launch a preview of the service in the coming weeks with a library of high quality fonts and design tools.
ABOUT SMALL BATCH
Founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Veen, Bryan Mason, Greg Veen, and Ryan Carver, Small Batch Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that has been designing and developing web apps together for years. In 2006, the team built Measure Map, the acclaimed blogging statistics tool that was acquired by Google. While at Google, they led the redesign of Analytics, a powerful website measurement tool used by millions worldwide. Since then, they collaborated with Twitter on user experience and business growth planning, and launched Wikirank — a trend analysis tool for Wikipedia. Additionally, they’ve been involved in W3C working groups and the Web Standards Project as proponents and active designers of the web’s infrastructure platform.
June 24, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Yay! Congratulations! Such lovely news!
June 24, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Make great and beautiful things!
June 24, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Excellent news indeed!
June 24, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Wow, congrats!
June 24, 2009 at 1:30 pm
excellent, congrats! This will surely help add fuel to this fire. Can’t wait to give it a test drive once you guys launch!
June 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Very cool. Go, Small Batch, Go!
June 24, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Sounds great! I can’t wait to use this on my sites!
June 24, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Congrats. More geniuses for your team! Looking forward to your launch.
June 24, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Congratulations! What a wonderful list of friendly, supportive, smart investors. Cool people building cool things supported by other cool people — can’t go wrong with that.
June 24, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Great news ! Looking forward to the launch.
June 24, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Bad. Ass. Congrats.
June 24, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Congrats — all around a wonderful announcement!
June 24, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Congrats Bryan and team Small Batch!
Very cool…
June 24, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Can’t wait to use the fonts….beautify the web!
June 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Congrats to Jeff and the rest of the team. Typography + entrepreneurship = something beautiful.
June 24, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Excellent news! Can’t wait to see typekit in action.
June 24, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Congrats, and I can’t wait to see the web on TypeKit!
June 24, 2009 at 4:45 pm
exciting news … anticipating with bated breath. and thank you.
June 24, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Congrats, guys. Now, get back to work on Typekit.
June 24, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Great news! Well deserved. Thanks for giving us hope.
June 24, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Yay, the last missing piece. Congratulations! Josh & Dave are great guys…
June 24, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Congratulations Jeff! This is great news!
June 25, 2009 at 12:54 am
Awesome news Greg! Congrats and all that gushy schtuff. go go go!
June 25, 2009 at 4:29 am
Congrats! I’m lookig forward to your preview
June 25, 2009 at 7:41 am
Nice, but… what about the type foundries? Wich ones are joining this service?
June 26, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Congrats all. Look forward to seeing it.
June 27, 2009 at 5:40 pm
wow, fantastic!
June 29, 2009 at 12:13 pm
This is very exciting. We have lot’s of high quality professional fonts that we want web designers to use, we should talk.
June 30, 2009 at 2:15 am
You guys have got the right backers. With Twitter, Flickr, etc. on board, I can see your innovations making it. Good luck. This is a worthy project. Kudos to you!
July 1, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Good deal, can’t wait to see! Congrats.
July 2, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Very very cool. You guys deserve a Manhattan!
July 14, 2009 at 7:09 am
Just read and blogged about you from Slate. Can’t WAIT to see this up and running and try it on my blogs!
Congrats on the funding!
November 27, 2009 at 2:33 am
We are so getting onboard with the DeadMule. Perfect fit! Thank you thank you.
December 3, 2009 at 8:22 am
defeniately bookmarked
January 14, 2010 at 2:32 am
Естественно, на самом-то деле так оно и есть.