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 ## Berlin-based GraphCMS raises €8.4M to grow its content management platform across Europe and the US

 ![img](https://siliconcanals.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/graphcms.jpg)] 

Berlin based GraphCMS has raised $10M (nearly €8.4M) in a Series A funding round. The round was led by OpenOcean, and previous investors Peak and Paua Ventures also participated. Fauna founder and CTO, Evan Weaver, and Instana’s (acquired by IBM) founder and CEO Mirko Novakovic also joined this round. The startup has raised a total of $13.7M (approx €11.6M), to date.

With the proceeds, the startup plans to expand its commercial footprint within the US and European markets and also support businesses in bringing world-class content experiences in a fraction of time.

 ## Headless CMS startup GraphCMS secures $10M Series A from UK-based VC

 ![img](https://www.uktech.news/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/GraphCMS.jpg)] 

GraphCMS, the Berlin-based company behind the GraphQL-native Headless CMS (Content Management System), has raised $10 million (approx £7.2 million) in funding in a Series A round.

Helsinki and London-based early-stage VC OpenOcean led the funding round, bringing GraphCMS’s total funding to $13.7 million (approx £10 million). Further, the investment was led by their UK-based GP Ekaterina Almasque.

Other investors including, Peak Capital, Paua Ventures, Mango Capital’s Robin Vasan (investor in HashiCorp, Netlify, and others), Fauna founder and CTO Evan Weaver, and Instana (acquired by IBM) founder and CEO Mirko Novakovic, also participated in the round.

The funding comes over a year after raising €2.5M (approx £2.1 million) from Peak Capital.

How will the funding be used?

GraphCMS will use this investment to focus on API integrations, accelerate product adoption, and scale its team globally across the US, UK, and European markets.

As a part of the funding round, UK-based Ekaterina Almasque, General Partner at OpenOcean, will join the company’s board.

Joins siloed data into a single API

Founded by Michael Lukaszczyk and Daniel Winter, GraphCMS addresses challenges around liberating vast amounts of siloed data from third-party systems. GraphCMS does this through –Content Federation, a plug-and-play solution.

According to GraphCMS, users can join siloed data from diverse sources into a single API programmatically, without any middleware.

The company allows enterprises to access the single API through whichever front end they prefer, allowing a broad range of use cases – from company intranets to new financial services products.

With Content Federation, the companies can build complex applications while streamlining all their data from a single source of truth. The company that uses Content Federation can push products to market 50% more quickly, says GraphCMS.

“To build a video-on-demand platform similar to Netflix, for example, GraphCMS can query remote sources to enrich all the content and ensure consistent data is distributed to the frontend via a single API. The actual films are delivered via API from the production providers; images can be queried from a DAM (Digital Asset Management) solution; metadata like subtitles come from their corresponding sources, and enrichments like ratings and reviews come from services like IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes. Within a single call to GraphCMS’s API, all these sources and content can be combined and served to a viewer within milliseconds to ensure a seamless digital experience,” says the company in the press release.

80x growth

The company has witnessed strong commercial and operational growth over 2021, achieving 80x growth in revenue since its initial seed investment in July 2018.

GraphCMS works with various clients across Europe and the United States including, audio products corporation Shure, global ed-tech platform 2U Inc., multinational telecommunications company Telenor, and two European government bodies.

Michael Lukaszczyk, CEO and Co-Founder at GraphCMS says: “There has been a significant shift in the way content is being created, delivered, and consumed, with enterprises grappling to keep up with the fast-paced requirements of the omnichannel world. Our best-in-class technology stack provides digital teams with a solution to the thorny issue of siloed data integration. This is huge in terms of accelerating the product development cycle, saving enterprises time and money, and enabling them to better serve their customers. It promises to be a key enabler of the online world as data continues to grow in importance and complexity.’

“OpenOcean’s investment in GraphCMS represents our largest initial investment to date in a Series A company”, says Ekaterina Almasque, General Partner at OpenOcean. “GraphCMS is a business primed to solve the challenges facing the industry today, from the exponential growth of siloed data to the increasing complexity of the enterprise digital journey. Firms are crying out for a new approach that delivers applications with the convenience of a database, the collaborative nature of a federated content platform, and the programmability of an API gateway. GraphCMS’ breakthrough approach combines the best of the GraphQL and content management system worlds to give their customers the edge over the competition, and the opportunity to lead the way in the era of rapid digitalisation.”

 ## Content management platform GraphCMS raises $10 million, liberates siloed data

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Addressing a key challenge in data-driven industries, effective data extraction from third-party systems, Berlin-based GraphCMS has raised $10 million in a new funding round. The startups’ solution cuts out the middleware and connects siloed data from a wide range of sources into a single API. The new funding is expected to help expand the company’s market presence in both Europe and the US. To date, GraphCMS has raised $13.7 million.

Founded in 2017, GraphCMS’s “Content Federation” API solution offers data-driven companies the ability to access any source of data on any front end of their choosing. Put simply, this means that content can be sourced from just about anywhere and then presented to an end-user on any device. This methodology can then be applied across engineering teams, content creators, and business units. Client BioCentury’s CTO David Smiling reported, “The time to market has drastically reduced from over 2 weeks to 3-4 days.”

Since its initial seed funding in July of 2018, the startup has seen an 80x growth in revenues, and now counts brand names including high-end audio products corporation Shure, ed-tech platform 2U Inc., Telco Telenor, and two European government bodies amongst its client base.

“There has been a significant shift in the way content is being created, delivered, and consumed, with enterprises grappling to keep up with the fast-paced requirements of the omnichannel world. Data from microservices is vital for companies from all sectors,” commented CEO and co-founder Michael Lukaszczyk. “Our technology stack provides digital teams with a solution to the thorny issue of siloed data integration. This is huge in terms of accelerating the product development cycle, saving enterprises time and money, and enabling them to better serve their customers.”

GraphCMS’s Series A round was led by OpenOcean, with previous investors Peak and Paua Ventures also participating. Mango Capital’s Robin Vasan, Fauna founder and CTO, Evan Weaver, and Instana founder and CEO Mirko Novakovic also joined this round.

 ## 結合無頭以及GraphQL特色的GraphCMS正式釋出

 ![img](https://s4.itho.me/sites/default/files/field/image/refine_fireshot_capture_423_-_graphcms_-_the_graphql_headless_cms_-_https_graphcmscom_.png)] 

現在使用者有新的內容管理系統（Content Management System，CMS）可以選擇了，GraphCMS宣布離開測試階段，對外釋出正式版本，與之前版本相比除了有全新的使用者介面設計外，也改進且統一了GraphQL API，同時提升了安全性功能。

GraphCMS開發人員大使Jesse Martin表示，隨著功能的發展，GraphCMS已經從原本小型的專案，晉升到了受獨立開發者與企業歡迎的無頭CMS（Headless CMS），並且已經獲得百萬美元的種子基金。

GraphCMS同時結合了無頭CMS以及GraphQL範式（Paradigm）的特色。無頭的意思便來自於該系統只有後端，頭的部分也就是前端被去掉了，傳統的CMS具備內容與表現兩層，但無頭CMS被歸類為內容儲存庫，供各種裝置以各類方法存取內容。因此無頭CMS的好處便是能提供一個或是多個網站、應用程式或是服務單一的內容來源，寫入一次就能四方交付。另外，前端也可以自由選擇技術組合，無論是Ruby、Swift、Ppython、PHP、Java或Javascript等語言都行。

而GraphQL則是由臉書在2012年開發的一種資料查詢語言，於2015年釋出，以作為REST和Ad-hoc網頁服務的另一種替代技術。GraphQL可讓客戶端定義請求的資料結構，並由伺服器端回傳相同結構的資料。Jesse Martin表示，傳統的REST API擁有大量的端點列表，包含新舊端點以提供各種內容服務需求，但是GraphQL就只有一個端點，提供客戶端要求的所有內容。GraphQL的API屬於描述性而非規定性的，該API由客戶端內容結構定義，當使用者了解內容便理所當然的知道API該如何使用。而且受惠於內省查詢，使用者可以在GraphiQL這類工具探索生成的API。

Jesse Martin提到，他們在一年多前從一個小型的CMS開始發展，現在已經是許多獨立開發者以及企業愛用的無頭CMS，GraphCMS在結合GraphQL範式以及無頭CMS，同時抓住了開發人員與企業需求。GraphCMS經過重新設計後，在使用者介面上應用大量的Google Material，因此操作起來直覺且外觀新穎。官方也對系統內部做了大修改，應用程式現在執行速度更快，也減少了許多舊架構帶來的技術債。

這次釋出的GraphCMS正式版中，採用了全新的使用者介面設計，還改進並且統一了GraphQL API，新增全域Webhooks同時擴增安全性功能。官方也承諾在未來3個月內會新增的功能有，修訂紀錄、自定義工作流程、自定義角色與權限、內容視圖，以及支援地理位置。而為了幫助用戶將舊系統內容搬移到新系統上，他們正開發一套工具並將於隨後釋出。

Jesse Martin也興奮的宣布，他們得到來自德國創投Paua Ventures領頭的一百萬美元種子基金投資，而這也代表著他們可以擴大開發團隊，提供GraphCMS更穩定全面的技術支援。

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