Mumbai based content marketplace Pepper Content announced on Tuesday that is has raised $4.2 Million (INR 31.6 Crores) in series A round of funding which was led by Lightspeed India.

The round also saw participation from a clutch of angel investors including Beerud Sheth (Founder, Upwork), Balaji Srinivasan (Coinbase CTO, ex-GP at a16z), Gaurav Munjal

(Founder, Unacademy), Aakrit Vaish (Founder, Haptik), Miten Sampat (ex-CSO, Times Internet), Akhil Paul (Caparo Group), Utsav Somani (iSeed/AngelList), Dilip Khandelwal (Ex-MD, SAP Labs India) and Gaurav Mandlecha (Growth, Airmeet).

Founded by Anirudh Singla and Rishab Shekhar, BITS Pilani alums, Pepper Content is a platform that brings together content creators and companies looking to enlist their services. Founded in 2017, the company enlists over 35,000 creative professionals such as content writers, graphic designers, language specialists, and editors. Collectively the listed creators have created more than 100,000 content pieces through the platform, earning over $400,000 in creator fees.

“Pepper is THE answer to new-age content creation and this fundraise marks our ambition to scale across more content categories in South-east Asia and eventually the globe!” said Anirudh Singla, Founder, in a statement. The company intends to utilize the fresh capital to expand its offerings to text, design, audio, and video content in India and Southeast Asia.