Zapd, a service that lets you design a webpage from your smartphone, has attracted a nearly $3.5 million Series B round for parent company PressPlane. The investment was led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and includes RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, who is joining the company’s board. PressPlane previously rolled out Inkd, an online marketplace for graphic design services. In this blog post announcing the financing round, Zapd founder and CEO Kelly Smith (of incubator/investment firm Curious Office) gets into some interesting culture and technology analysis, writing about how Zapd intends to thrive in a world where websites are “impulsive, alive, social and easy.” Smith also says he’s been devoting most of his time to Zapd over the past several months, with the Inkd folks operating more and more on their own.
Author: Curt Woodward
Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft.
Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem.
A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.
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