Berlin-based Anytype, a no-code web builder, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $13.4M (approximately €12.3M) in a fresh round of funding led by Balderton Capital.
Inflection and Square One, as well as prominent angels from the software and Web3 world, including Trent McConnaghy (Ocean), Jutta Steiner (Polka Dot), Luis Cuendo (Aragon), and Adam Wiggins (Heroku), also participated in the round.
The German startup says it will use the funds to further develop its platform and bring it to even more people.
How was Anytype born?
Initially, the Internet was designed as a decentralised and distributed network, facilitating the free exchange of information among computers.
However, the emergence of the modern web has drastically altered this landscape. Currently, we are locked into using proprietary files, apps, and servers built and owned by a select few.
Anytype’s founders, Anton Pronkin and Zhanna Sharipova, saw this first-hand as they witnessed their home nation state of Russia use such technologies to seize control of user data and information.
As a result, the duo founded Anytype with a mission to return the internet to the way it was intended by rebuilding the systems from scratch.
Anytype: No-code web builder
Anytype is a local-first, peer-to-peer, open-source tool that gives users the freedoms of the web without sacrificing their privacy, data, or control.
With this platform, users can create online spaces where all their information is stored in a graph and in which all their “objects” – their thoughts, tasks, documents, notes, goals, and more – are linked thematically.
The platform has been designed to mimic how our brains source, categorise and process thoughts by creating networks of interlinked objects.
Anytype says its platform doesn’t run on proprietary files or apps. Users don’t have to hand over their data, nor are they beholden to the whims of developers.
The company’s Anysync protocol syncs data across a peer-to-peer network in an encrypted, decentralised way. It means users don’t have to be connected to the web to share, access, and distribute information.
As per the company’s claims, more than 30,000 people from a range of professions, including software developers, students, nurses, city planners, pharmacists, nuns, and the police, took part in Anytype’s Alpha release.
Anytype has 75,000 people on the waitlist for its open beta before the official launch on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.
With its public Beta launch, Anytype now has a community of 100,000 and growing, from software developers to doctors and artists.
The Investor
Balderton Capital is a multistage venture firm that supports Europe’s best founders from Seed to IPO. The VC has both early and growth funds, and invests across the technology sector with a proven track record backing fintech, B2B SaaS, digital health, mobility, gaming, and marketplace companies.
Balderton’s current portfolio includes, Aircall, Beauty Pie, Contentful, Dream Games, GoCardless, JOKR, Lendable, Matillon, Merama, Revolut, Tibber, Vestiaire Collective, Voi, and Zego.
Previous investments include Darktrace, Depop, Flywire, Kobalt, MySQL, Nutmeg, Peakon, Recorded Future, Talend, and THG.
Colin Hanna, Partner at Balderton, says, “The progress in productivity software has allowed incredible levels of innovation but too often we lose ownership over what we’ve created. With Anytype, users are able to own the information and the networks they create, without an intermediary. At a time when there are crackdowns on digital independence around the world, Anytype allows people to leverage future-proof software while remaining sovereign. We’re proud to be supporting them as they begin an exciting new chapter.”
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