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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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