Blendle, the Dutch startup on a quest to save paper journalism from becoming extinct, has raised an additional €4M in a new funding round. The digital kiosk, formerly dubbed the ‘iTunes for journalism’, brought together a rather unusual pair of investors. One could even say that Blendle won the lottery…
The first investor officially listed in the humblebrag Medium piece that serves as a press update is Bookspot. The online bookstore, formerly known as ECI, a bankrupted and quite notorious bookclub is owned by Novamedia. Boudewijn Poelmann, the CEO, and owner of Novamedia, once founded the Nationale Postcode Lottery, the Dutch lottery behemoth, and the world’s third-biggest philanthropical institute.