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Niv combined pre-seed and seed to announce $6.5M round for TechCrunch
“And with that proof of concept I raised a seed round of a 5.2 million dollars. I announced it as a 6.5 because I wanted to get into TechCrunch. I combined the pre-seed and the seed together. But eventually TechCrunch did not cover us.”
Niv: 10M titles go unpublished yearly due to cost and inefficiency
“So I believe there are about ten million titles that are not being published every year because of the process being so expensive, so inefficient”
Niv: Audiobooks represent about 40% of book consumption
“About 40% of book consumption nowadays is voice, audio books.”
Niv says an AI publishing rival raised $4M but never launched
“There is another AI-based publishing platform that had a seed round of four million dollars a year and a half ago, and they didn't launch a product yet. Not even the first version, because it's very complicated to take a publishing process, ok, and turn that i…”
Niv: Spines has published 3,700 authors with 10x YoY growth
“And we've been able to already, when it's recorded, to publish 3700 American authors. And we are growing very, very fast for the past two years, more than 10 X year over year growth.”
Niv: US publishes 2.5M titles annually, second only to China
“So in the States, there are 2.5 million titles published annually. It's only second to China.”
Niv: Oren Zeev tracked Spines for two years before leading round
“One of the things Oren Zeb told me because I've been communicating with him for over two years before he decided to invest in me. And he told me, like, two years ago, you kind of told me what you are planning on doing. Two years after, it actually works, you k…”