Here at PhotoShelter, we’re celebrating our company’s 14th birthday. In nearly a decade and a half, we’ve had the privilege of building tools for the world’s top photographers and the most cutting-edge, creative brands. Now, we’re starting a new chapter – because we have so much more we want to build for you.
Today, I’m excited to share that we’ve received funding from Level Structured Capital that will help us move faster and build breakthrough visual content workflow solutions for creative teams, marketers and visual storytellers.
With access to $8 million in new capital from the team at Level, we’ll take a new leap forward in our ability to deliver tools that help you leverage visual content to solve big business challenges. We’re transforming the way content is handled inside of large organizations — so our next steps will deliver advanced content collaboration tools, new mobile capabilities that drive your team’s real-time creative workflow, and powerful partner integrations. We’re accelerating hiring across our product and engineering teams, so we can add to the incredibly talented group of engineers that are making our vision a reality. And, we’ll be able to move into a new 23,000 square foot office in Manhattan’s Financial District to fit our growing team – where, of course, we’ll continue to host informative and fun events for our community.
Now, more than ever, we’ll be able to deliver on our mission of empowering effortless visual storytelling.
We’re starting this chapter with an incredible foundation. Right now, thanks to exciting growth in 2018, more than 1,000 top brands use Libris to power their visual storytelling, including The Associated Press, New York Jets, Los Angeles Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Purdue University, National Aquarium, Chick-fil-A, Special Olympics Inc., Pandora, PBS, Politico and Nathan’s Famous – to name a few. More than 80,000 world class photographers use PhotoShelter to run their businesses online. Combined, PhotoShelter and Libris are now home to more than 600 million visual assets.
We have an unmatched ability to manage visual content on a massive scale (new research shows we upload media 70% faster than Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and WordPress). We’re creating the highest-performing, best looking, most innovative and easy to use visual media platform – with unparalleled speed – for creative teams. And we’re ready to revolutionize the way creative teams manage and deploy their visual media.
We‘re celebrating this exciting milestone with everyone who’s been a part of this company for the past 14 years. From our founders, to our team members (past and present), to our member photographers and Libris clients, we’re grateful for all of the incredibly talented creative people who have inspired us and helped us build what we have today. Thank you.
In true form, we thought we’d share a look back at some photos we took along the way. As you scroll through, you’ll see our first office (complete with a couple of box desks), events where we’ve had the chance to see our members and clients face-to-face, and team photos of the people who’ve made this place special.
In today’s visual content driven world, we know you’re operating at full speed to produce and share more of it with your audience. We want our platform to be the foundation that helps you make amazing things happen with your content. Let’s take your game to the next level, together. Thank you for being a part of our story.
