Pressly, a service for turning your big, dumb website into a pretty, shiny HTML5 mobile experience, has just raised $1.5 million in funding.
The funding comes from iNovia Capital and OMERS Ventures. This is the startup’s first round.
Companies pay between $200 and $500 per month for the Pressly treatment, which takes the customer’s content and their hand-picked template and churns out an HTML app for smartphones and tablets. Current customers include Ziff Davis, The Economist, Toyota, IBM, and The Toronto Star.
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The funding will be used for marketing to expand that client roster and start building up Pressly’s kingdom of HTML5 content apps.
“We love that Pressly gives content publishers a low-risk, low-friction way to take their business to the mobile world and experiment. The times are changing, and that’s what’s needed to succeed,” said Pressly CEO Jeff Brenner in a statement on the news.
Pressly first launched in 2011 and is based in Toronto.
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