Captricity Inc., a Berkeley, CA-based SaaS firm that gives enterprise customers fast and easy access to high quality data, today announced a $10 million Series B round of financing led by Atlas Venture, with Social+Capital also participating.
Captricity was founded by Kuang Chen, whose Ph.D. research in Tanzania and Uganda revealed the need to transform paper-based documents into digital data to improve organizations’ efficiency and service. Kuang is a UW CSE Bachelors alum, and completed his Berkeley Ph.D. working with UW CSE Ph.D. alum Tapan Parikh and fellow Berkeley faculty member Joe Hellerstein.