Software blogging platform Hashnode bags $6.7 M from Salesforce Ventures, others

Software blogging platform Hashnode has raised USD 6.7 million in its Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures. Sierra Ventures, Sequoia Capital India's Surge and Accel Partners along with angel investors Naval Ravikant (co-founder, Angellist), Des Traynor (co-founder, Intercom), Guillermo Rauch (co-founder, Vercel) also participated in the round. The US-headquartered startup will use the fresh capital to increase user base, hire new talents, expand global presence, and roll out new features. Hashnode was founded in 2020 by IIIT Bhubaneswar alumni Sandeep Panda and Syed Fazle Rahman. The company offers a blogging platform for software developers to write the technicalities of software development, engineering and technology and share it and related insights with the global developer community at large. The firm boasts of having over a million active users.