MOUNTAIN VIEW: Nimble Collective has closed an $8.5 million round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with plans to develop a new cloud-based platform.<\/p>\n
Nimble Collective is\u00a0developing the animation industry’s first cloud-based, end-to-end platform and the world’s largest online animation community, targeting approximately 10 million professional and aspiring animators around the globe. The platform will allow users to collaborate, develop and distribute their creative content. It is slated to become available to select partners later this year.\u00a0Nimble Collective has also named NEA venture partner Greg Papadopoulos to its board as well as animated film industry advisors Mark Walsh, Eric Darnell and Peter Ramsey, whose collective credits include such films as Rise of the Guardians<\/em>, Toy Story 2<\/em>, Madagascar<\/em> and Monsters, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe animation content market generates $90 billion annually, yet millions of talented animators simply do not have access to the expensive studio-quality technology tools and big budgets currently required to bring high-quality creative projects to fruition,\u201d said Michael Howse, co-founder and investor of Nimble Collective. \u201cNimble will change that by democratizing the market with the world\u2019s first collaborative, cloud-based platform for generating content that animators can distribute and profit from in exciting new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNimble is delivering studio caliber tools and collaboration capabilities\u2014all in the cloud\u2014that free-up animators to do what they do best\u2014create,\u201d noted Nimble co-founder and CCO Rex Grignon. \u201cOur goal is to enable a new generation of creatives to create, collaborate and prosper by building their own unique, modern content to reach huge audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNimble is on the verge of creating a tectonic shift in the marketplace with an innovative platform that will disrupt the status quo of animation content creation,\u201d added Papadopoulos. \u201cCreated by world-class animators, the Nimble platform opens up an unprecedented level of new opportunities for the 10-plus million professional and aspiring animators around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MOUNTAIN VIEW: Nimble Collective has closed an $8.5 million round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with plans to develop a new cloud-based platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[651,652,653,654,655,656],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-eric-darnell","tag-greg-papadopoulos","tag-mark-walsh","tag-new-enterprise-associates","tag-nimble-collective","tag-peter-ramsey","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n