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  • Welcome
  • About
    • Introduction
    • Terminology
    • Company
    • Pricing
    • Community Guidelines
    • Values
    • Team
    • Investors
    • Contributing
  • Product
    • Features
    • Roadmap
    • Comparison
    • User Profile
    • Currencies
    • Log-in System
  • Collectives
    • FAQ
    • Creating a Collective
    • Quick Start Guide
    • Customize Collective
    • Change Core Contributors
    • Tiers & Goals
    • Add Fiscal Host
    • Change Fiscal Host
    • Transparent Budget
    • Expense Policy
    • Approving Expenses
    • Updates & Comms
    • Events
    • Funding Options
    • Data Export
    • Buttons & Banners
    • Integrations
    • Zero Collective Balance
    • Closing a Collective
  • Financial Contributors
    • FAQ
    • Payments
    • Website Badge
    • Organizations
      • FAQ
      • Bulk Transfers
      • Gift Cards
      • Sustainer Resources
    • Collectives
      • Collective to Collective donations
  • Expenses & Getting Paid
    • FAQ
    • Submitting Expenses
    • Expense Comments
    • Edit an Expense
    • Tax Information
  • Fiscal Hosts
    • FAQ
    • Becoming a Fiscal Host
    • Create a Fiscal Host
    • Fiscal Host Settings
    • Invoices
    • Payouts
    • Host Dashboard
    • Add Funds Manually
    • Refunds
    • Host Fees
    • Local Tax Support
    • Agreement Templates
    • Open Source Collective
  • Contributing
    • Design
      • Design Workflow
      • Design Contribution Guidelines
    • Development
      • Contribution Guide
      • Best Practice Guidelines
      • Bounties
      • API
        • Members
        • Users / Emails
        • Collectives
        • Events
      • README Integration
      • Architecture
      • Postgres Database
      • PayPal
      • Post-Donation Redirect
      • Custom Tweets
      • Manual Reporting
      • Github Permissions
      • Translations
      • Testing with Cypress
      • Collective's locations
    • Documentation
      • Style guide
      • Suggesting changes
    • Translation
  • Internal
    • Scope
    • Team Retreats
    • Brussels Summer Team Retreat
    • Host Admin Manual
    • Newsletter
    • Support
    • Issue Labels
    • DNS Troubleshooting
    • Developer Guidelines
    • Architecture
    • Testing
    • Queries
      • Gift Cards
      • Transactions
      • Ops
      • Collectives
      • Hosts
      • Analytics
      • Emails
    • Projects
      • Maintainerati Berlin 2019
      • Season of Docs 2019
    • The Open Collective Way
      • Values
      • Community Guidelines
      • Core Contributors Guidelines
      • Core Contributors: Communication
      • Core Contributors: Expenses
      • Core contributors: Leave
      • Core Contributors: Compensation
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  1. About

Investors

We did a first pre-seed round of $500k in October 2015 (deck, SAFE, $5M cap) with:

  • $250k General Catalyst (SF/NYC/Boston, Hemant Taneja)

  • $50k Jonathan Siegel (can't pin down his location)

  • $50k Belcube (Brussels)

  • $50k Tony Jamous (London, Nexmo)

  • $25k Eric Nadalin (London, Nexmo)

  • $25k Brian Larson (SF, engineer at Google, Twitter)

  • $15k Guillermo Rauch (SF/Buenos Aires, socket.io)

  • $10k Dries Buytaert (Boston, Drupal)

  • $10k Underscore.vc (Boston)

  • $5k Toon Vanagt (Brussels, data.be)

  • $5k Xavier Corman (Brussels, Edebex)

  • $5k Personal friend

We did a follow up round of $315k in July 2016 (SAFE, $8M cap) with:

  • $100k Ricardo Gorodisch (Argentina, President Foundation Kaleidos)

  • $50k Pete Koomen (SF, Cofounder/CTO Optimizely)

  • $25k Jim Payne (NYC, Cofounder MoPub, EIR Accel Partners)

  • $25k Caesar Sengupta (Bay Area, VP Product Management at Google)

  • $20k Gautam Gandhi (India, Entrepreneur, former Head New Business Development India at Google)

  • $15k Tom Brown (FinTech lawyer, partner at Paul Hastings, former VP at Visa )

  • $15k Sam De Brouwer (SF, TEDxSanFrancisco)

  • $15k Vadim (NYC/Bay Area/Buenos Aires)

  • $10k John Kobs (SF, Entrepreneur/CEO at ApartmentList)

  • $10k Nicolas Wittenborn (Berlin, principal at point 9 venture)

  • $10k Derek Parham (NYC, deputy CTO at Hillary For America)

  • $10k Henry Bridge (NYC, Director of Product at Hillary For America)

  • $10k Antoine Perdaens (Belgium, Cofounder/CEO at KnowledgePlaza)

We did a Series Seed lead by Bloomberg Beta in June 2017 ($9M pre valuation, Term Sheet, Stock Investment Agreement), including:

  • $1M James Cham, Roy Bahat, Karin Klein (Bloomberg Beta)

  • $350k Angel list syndicate lead by Dave Eisenberg and Nadia Eghbal

  • $200k Nicholas Chirls (Notation Capital)

  • $150k Dave Eisenberg

  • $100k Semil Shah (Haystack.vc)

  • $40k Armin Steuernagel (Purpose.ag)

  • $35k Ramy Adeeb (1984.vc)

  • $25k John Kobs (SF, Entrepreneur/CEO at ApartmentList)

  • $25k Randy Reddig (Square)

  • $25k Noah Weiss

  • $20k Jack Herrick (WikiHow.com)

  • $10k Kyle Wild (Keen.io)

  • $10k Sam Gerstenzang

  • $10k David King

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