Hindustan Media Ventures led the £1m seed round alongside crowdfunding and angel support to fund international expansion and product development.
"We’re delighted with the outcome of our fundraising efforts. Wurkr is emerging as a start-up success story, as we worked to expand during the pandemic crisis in an economically challenging landscape. Since our launch, we were able to develop the business without government grants, and this seed funding round helps to position us strongly for the next phase of our growth strategy. The incredibly high calibre of our investors is testament to the very real and needed solution that Wurkr’s platform brings to the market."
The pre-seed round was backed by MMC Ventures, RLC Ventures and angel investors to help expand the company early access programme.
"It has never been easier to start building and publishing your own software. But to be sure they’re building something useful, product teams of all sizes need to continuously keep talking to their users to understand what they want and how their products can be improved. Yet, for most product teams, user interviews can take days to set. Ribbon aims to change that by making it super simple for digital product teams to start user interviews directly from their products through one simple integration."
Downing Ventures led the Series B round with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, MMC Ventures, and Chestnut Street Ventures.
"Securing a further significant round of funding is an important step in the development of the business and a huge vote of confidence in our team, technology and achievements to date,"
VGC Partners led the seed round with capital from its Technology Seed Fund IV.
"Maria and the team have done an outstanding job of growing the business to this stage, and we’re looking forward to working with them to support the business going forward. Additionally as a member of the Alexa UK Incubator Programme, the founders will receive additional mentorship directly from the Amazon team."
