With 60 million assets ingested in 9 months and Khosla Ventures leading, Shade presses its case as the intelligent file system for enterprise creative teams.

The Gist

Funding secured. Shade raised $14M led by Khosla Ventures, Construct Capital and Bling Capital.

Unified file platform. Capital will fund multimodal search, business-object modeling and extensibility.

Creative team impact. Platform has ingested 60M+ assets across brands, agencies and sports organizations.

Shade on April 23 announced a $14 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Construct Capital and Bling Capital, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst, SignalFire and Contrary. The round brought total funding to $20 million, according to company officials .

The startup plans to use the capital to advance what it calls an intelligent file system for creative teams — a single platform for storing, searching reviewing and archiving media assets.…