Deal focus: Bud puts content creators first
GGV Capital first backed Bud before the founders had a market-ready product. Now the company has closed a Series B round and is looking to take its user-generated content tools into more markets
Jenny Lee, a managing partner at GGV Capital, doesn’t care for all the hype around metaverse. Her decision to invest in Bud Technologies in late 2020, a 3D user-generated content (UGC) platform was rooted...
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