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"The digital publishing platform MAZ, co-founded by an ex-Apple employee has announced a $1 million seed round led by Expansion Venture Capital, which has also backed other mobile app-based startups such as Apptopia and Appstack.\r\n\r\nIt is the first time MAZ receives institutional funding, which will be used to scale up and expand the team, the company says.\r\n\r\n\u201CWe have been an almost entirely bootstrapped startup since our launch over two years ago,\u201D said the CEO of MAZ Paul Canetti, who co-founded the startup after quitting a job in Apple. The core team also includes the CIO Simon Baumer and the CTO Shikha Arora, ex-Adobe staff member.\r\n\r\nThe idea behind MAZ (which is an abbreviation from MagAppZine) is to build a cloud-based publication platform, allowing users to create, distribute, and manage their digital publications as native iPad apps without having to hire a developer for this purpose. All what the user has to do is to fill in their app's details and upload issues in PDF... and, of course, to pay a fee of $299 per month.\r\n\r\nCurrently, the company's key markets are the US and India.\r\n\r\nExpansion Venture Capital, which led the round, has brought 13 more seed funds and angels to participate in it, including MI Ventures,\u00A0T5 Capital, and Amer Rehman of YFT Ventures.\r\n\r\nImage credit:\u00A0theseanster93 / Flickr."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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