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\title{Authorea raises a seed round of investment.}


\author{Alberto Pepe}
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We are very excited to announce that Authorea has recently raised its
first round of funding for a total of \$610k with a joint investment by
\textbf{ff Venture Capital} and \textbf{NY Angels}!

ffVC is an institutional venture capital investor in seed-stage
companies based in New York City. NY Angels is the largest and most
active technology-focused angel investment organization on the East
Coast.

This investment is important for Authorea on many levels.

First of all, we are solidifying and growing our team.
\href{https://authorea.com/jobs}{We're hiring!} If you are interested in
making science better, you will enjoy working with us. Drop us a line.

A bigger team means that Authorea will get better faster. We will keep
working toward our mission to accelerate science, to improve
dissemination and quality of research results and to promote Open
Science. We look forward to making Authorea your platform of choice for
scholarly writing, research collaboration, and data sharing.

We are also thrilled to announce that our brand new Board of Directors
will welcome \textbf{John Frankel}, CEO of ff Venture Capital, and
\textbf{Brian Cohen}, Chairman of NY Angels. Together with John and
Brian, the board will also be composed of \textbf{Matteo Cantiello}
(formerly Authorea's Scientific Advisor) and us, the two co-founders,
Nathan and Alberto. We will be announcing our full team and advisory
board in the next few weeks.

\emph{Happy writing!}

---Nathan and Alberto

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