Thursday, October 18, 2018

Tastemade Takes $35M

Santa Monica-based Tastemade, which develops food- and lifestyle-focused content for YouTube, as well as its own website, said this week that it has raised $35M, in its Series E funding round. The funding was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, and also included Amazon, Cool Japan Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Raine Ventures, Comcast Ventures, and Liberty Media. The content developer, which is led by co-founder and CEO Larry Fitzgibbon, says it now reaches over 250 million monthly viewers. The company's show include food, recipe, travel, and home focused content.

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