by Jessica Klein

Vessel has raised a total of $57.5 million in a Series B funding round, said sources close to the company.

The round brought back investors from the company’s Series A funding, including Benchmark, Greylock, and Bezos Expeditions, Jeff Bezos’ personal investment company, but was led by Institutional Venture Partners. Within IVP, general partner Todd Chaffee led the investment. This follows his investments with the venture capital firm in other digital video/social companies like NetflixSnapchat, and Twitter.

Chaffee gave Vessel a big vote of confidence in IVP’s blog post, stating, “If you had to back one team to build the world’s most advances and user-friendly video platform, this would be the team,” further citing CEO Jason Kilar’s track record as founding CEO of Hulu and extolling the platform’s video content.

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