Content creation platform Hashnode banks $2.1m in round led by Sequoia’s Surge

Hashnode, a content creation platform, announced that it has raised US$2.1 million in a new financing round led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge.

Co-founders of Hashnode Sandeep Panda (left) and Syed Fazle Rahman

Angel investors that participated in the funding round include Naval Ravikant – an early backer in Twitter, Uber, and the co-founder of AngelList – BrowserStack founders Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal, as well as Razorpay founders Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur.

US-headquartered Hashnode allows people to publish articles on their own domain. It also provides users with a community of developers to interact with through functionalities like reactions, comments, and bookmarks, among others.

“We realized many writers just want a platform that helps them focus on writing and gives them the freedom to blog without losing control over their content or thinking about traffic and SEO,” said Syed Fazle Rahman, CEO at Hashnode.

According to the company, it hosts over 20,000 active blogs and engages about 500,000 monthly active users. It also claims to have seen a 25% month-over-month growth in the number of writers, readers, blogs, and page views.

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The company is part of Surge, a Southeast Asia- and India-focused accelerator run by Sequoia India, which has selected 16 other early-stage startups for its fourth cohort.

The startup accelerator also recently invested in customer service startup Richpanel and co-led a round in game development service firm Mod.io.

Similar companies in the developer community space are Hacker Noon, Dev Community, Singapore’s GIC-backed Stack Overflow, and Medium.