Klatcher.com is a free self-publishing platform that provides authors with impactful, automated business technologies to fuel their online publishing success. Its tools enable everyone to publish texts, rich media and all file formats, build and retain their reader base, and take part in an advanced creative economy that maximizes productivity and income for authors. Klatcher’s strategic goal is to empower every creative mind to make a living from its creativity in less than 60 days.

Klatcher currently has a headcount of 9, located in the San Francisco Bay Area (CA), New York (NY), Berlin (Germany), and Chennai (India). It was first launched in August 2008 as a universal publishing tool, focusing on easy to use publishing tools and a one click monetization technology. In beginning of 2009, powerful social networking features, a new user interface and a monetary stimulus technology were added, and launched in public beta testing in April 2009.

The company is led by Johannes Bhakdi (CEO) and Robert Kunze (CTO), and is currently a division of Sophotec VC Inc., a Silicon Valley based innovation company focusing on knowledge and mind technologies.