Minted, a marketplace for community-sourced paper products like custom stationery and wedding invitations, has raised a big pile of the green kind of paper — the kind you can spend.
For anyone whose parents told them to stop doodling Celtic knots or obsessively repetitive graphic designs and focus on doing schoolwork so they could get a decent job, that must come as encouraging news.
“I love the creativity of the community,” cofounder Mariam Naficy told me today.
Read the full story: Art can pay: Minted raises $5.5M to expand graphic design and stationery business | VentureBeat.