Socialeads Announces Seed Round

Socialeads , a Milwaukee based AI & machine learning technology startup, has closed a round of seed funding for $750,000. Funding was led by The Winnebago Seed Fund with additional investment coming from Northwestern Mutual’s Cream City Venture Capital and the BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation. The participation from Cream City Venture Capital expands its stake in Socialeads who won Northwestern Mutual’s Reverse Pitch last fall. The financing will be used to expand Socialeads’ resourcing needs to launch initial pilots for Northwestern Mutual’s financial advisors.

Socialeads’ AI platform is enabling financial services companies and their advisors to know the size, depth, and value of their professional and personal social networks. Socialeads’ advanced machine learning and natural language processing technology provides insights derived from social media. These real-time insights help advisors to better serve their clients.

“It’s exciting to be joined by our new partners building Socialeads and helping our customers and their clients on their journeys of financial planning and securing their families’ futures. The Winnebago Seed Fund and their commitment to growing advanced technology companies make them a perfect partner. We’re also excited to have continued support from Cream City Venture Capital and the amazing people at Northwestern Mutual who have been instrumental in collaborating with us to bring the vision of Socialeads to reality.” – CEO of Socialeads, Larry Hitchcock.

“Socialeads is building a unique solution which will allow our advisors to deliver financial security to more clients . It’s a privilege to partner with a team building a technology company in Milwaukee that is solving a large problem sales professionals in many industries face.” – Venture Partner at Northwestern Mutual, Craig Schedler.

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