Scripted is an

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that connects businesses with

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s for

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s, articles, and bulk social media posts. Located in San Francisco, co-founders Sunil Rajaraman and Ryan Buckley launched Scripted as a byproduct of their scriptwriting company

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. Scripted pays freelance writers a flat rate to create

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for its clients. According to

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, Scripted has a pool of 80,000

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as of November 2011, with 80% of those writers U.S. based.

History

Scripted is administered by co-founders CEO Sunil Rajaraman and CFO Ryan Buckley. Before officially changing their focus from

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to freelance writing in November 2011, Rajaraman and Buckley founded Scripped in 2008, an online company specializing in screenplay services. On March 29, 2010, Scripped announced a merger with screenwriting competitor

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. Rajaraman remained the merged company's Chief Executive Officer. Then, in May 2011, Rajaraman and Buckley launched offshoot site Scripted.com. In November 2011, it started with $700,000 in seed funding from investors Crosslink Capital,

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CIO Jody Mulkey, and LiveOps founder Douglas Feirstein. In February 2012, a new seed financing round resulted in an additional $150,000 led by former

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Executive-in-Residence David Wu. The company recently partnered with Dana Brunetti and

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’s company

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to introduce its new publishing website ShowWatcher. In June 2013, Scripted raised $4.5 million from Redpoint, Crosslink.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.scripted.com/ Online marketplaces of the United States Freelance marketplace websites Internet properties established in 2011 2011 establishments in California Employment websites in the United States