Ceros

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Ceros, Inc.
Type of site
Software
Founded2007
Headquarters New York City, USA
Founder(s) Brian Alvey, Simon Berg, Dominic Duffy, Craig Wood
Revenue $50,000,000
URL www.ceros.com

Ceros is a cloud-based platform encompassing a collaborative, real-time digital canvas, upon which designers create animated, interactive content without the need for developers.

Contents

The published content works across desktop and mobile devices and can be integrated with e-commerce systems using the Ceros e-commerce SDK. Ceros' platform analytics mechanism works in real-time and reports engagement metrics.

Investment history

Founded by Brian Alvey in 2007 as Crowd Fusion, the company acquired London-based Ceros in 2012 and assumed the acquired company's name. [1] CEO of the acquired company, Simon Berg, became the CEO of the newly combined entity. Crowd Fusion initially raised $3 million from Velocity Interactive Group (now Fuse Capital), Greycroft Partners and Marc Andreessen. [2] Having won customers such as ShopBazaar, Mini, Stella McCartney, Frette, Moncler, Urban Outfitters, Tourneau, Peugeot, Habitat, Monsoon and Virgin Atlantic in its first year, the company attracted a further $6.2 million investment [3] from Greycroft, Sigma Prime and Starvest Partners in March 2014. In 2020, Ceros raised $100 million led by Sumeru Equity Partners along with its existing investors. [4]

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References

  1. "Crowd Fusion Buys Ceros — And Changes Its Name and Business Model". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  2. "Stealthy Web Publishing Platform Crowd Fusion Raises $3M from Velocity, Greycroft, Andreessen". VentureBeat. 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
  3. Griffith, Erin (3 April 2014). "Ceros raises $6.2 million to take on Adobe's creative cloud". Fortune .
  4. Ha, Anthony (2020-07-23). "Digital design platform Ceros raises $100M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-10-30.