Brandcont, a Bilbao startup that is heading for the USA

13/06/2013
Diego Gutiérrez
Brandcont, a Bilbao startup that is heading for the USA

The Bilbao startup Brandconthas been selected by 500startups, one of the most prestigious American accelerators in the USA, to be located in Silicon Valley.

Brandcont: a new concept of content distribution for brands.

BrandCont is the first "marketplace" in Spanish where brands can plan and automatically publish corporate content or "branded content" in the editorial spaces of digital media. The latter receive through BrandCont corporate information generated by the brands in accordance with their editorial line.

To this end, it has developed a unique technological platform that streamlines and automates the publication of this content in multiple media, allowing for simultaneous planning and insertion, as well as obtaining large audiences from premium generalist and vertical media.

«La iniciativa ha sido liderada por Gorka Muñecas que es conocido en Euskadi por haber traido de USA el concepto de webtv, al crear soda.tv, una productora especializada en vídeo por Internet. En esta ocasión, Gorka y sus socios han realizado el proceso inverso, han llevado desde aquí un nuevo modelo de negocio a USA mercado donde tienen mejor aceptación las empresas innovadoras tanto por la mayor capacidad de atraer inversión como por la mayor adopción por parte de los clientes», comenta Diego Gutierrez Zarza, experto en nuevos modelos de negocio y su financiación (ABRA INVEST).

Content marketing, a target for American VCs

In addition to this deal, we have recently seen investments by American Venture Capitalists in content marketing companies, such as  BrightEdgeSan Mateo, California-based content marketing platform developer, has raised $42.8 million in a Series D round. The round was led by Insight Venture Partners and was also backed by existing shareholders Intel Capital, Battery Ventures, Altos Ventures and Illuminate Ventures.

«El marketing de contenidos está tomando un peso muy relevante en el presupuesto de marketing de las marcas.BrightEdge une a la capacidad de distribución de contenidos una capacidad de análisis y de métricas muy necesaria para los expertos en SEO. Es de destacar el tamaño de las rondas en USA, casi 43 MM€. En Europa estas cantidades solo se ven para empresas muy consolidadas e internacionalizadas» analiza Diego Gutierrez.

Another Spanish case: Brandrain

In the first quarter of 2013, Brandrain raised a round of investors led by Inverready's crowdfunding platform (Thecrowdangel) and backed by ENISA for a total of approximately €500,000. Brandrain is a SaaS tool designed to capture, monitor, analyse and take action, measuring the impact on brand reputation of all communication and branding actions both online and offline.

«Participamos activamente en la gestión de Brandrain y el desarrollo que ha tenido la herramienta en estos pocos meses ha sido espectacular. Los clientes actuales están sacando mucho más partido para su gestión de la reputación de sus marcas en este breve período de tiempo», resalta Diego Gutierrez.

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