Typekit

San Fran­cis­co, Calif. — June 24, 2009 — Small Batch Inc. announced today that they have secured a round of equi­ty fund­ing from a group of investors led by San Fran­cis­co-based True Ven­tures. Small Batch is devel­op­ing Type­kit, a ser­vice enabling design­ers to build sites with web-native typog­ra­phy.

“This fund­ing is the next step in our plan for bring­ing real typog­ra­phy to the web,” said Bryan Mason, Small Batch co-founder and Pres­i­dent . “We want to build a nim­ble, safe tool that makes it eas­i­er for web design­ers to do amaz­ing design online, and a lot of peo­ple believe in that goal. We’re excit­ed and hum­bled by the team of investors sup­port­ing us.”

Tony Con­rad of True Ven­tures leads a team of high-pro­file investors that also includes:

“Typog­ra­phy is the last miss­ing piece of great web design,” said Jef­frey Veen, Small Batch co-founder and CEO. “We’re work­ing close­ly with type design­ers to cre­ate a new mar­ket for their work.”

Type­kit will launch a pre­view of the ser­vice in the com­ing weeks with a library of high qual­i­ty fonts and design tools.

ABOUT SMALL BATCH Found­ed in 2008 by Jef­frey Veen, Bryan Mason, Greg Veen, and Ryan Carv­er, Small Batch Inc. is a San Fran­cis­co-based com­pa­ny that has been design­ing and devel­op­ing web apps togeth­er for years. In 2006, the team built Mea­sure Map, the acclaimed blog­ging sta­tis­tics tool that was acquired by Google. While at Google, they led the redesign of Ana­lyt­ics, a pow­er­ful web­site mea­sure­ment tool used by mil­lions world­wide. Since then, they col­lab­o­rat­ed with Twit­ter on user expe­ri­ence and busi­ness growth plan­ning, and launched Wiki­rank — a trend analy­sis tool for Wikipedia. Addi­tion­al­ly, they’ve been involved in W3C work­ing groups and the Web Stan­dards Project as pro­po­nents and active design­ers of the web’s infra­struc­ture plat­form.