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Last updated 5 years ago

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

  • $250k (SF/NYC/Boston, )

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

  • $50k (Brussels)

  • $50k (London, )

  • $25k (London, )

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

  • $15k (SF/Buenos Aires, )

  • $10k (Boston, )

  • $10k (Boston)

  • $5k (Brussels, )

  • $5k (Brussels, )

  • $5k Personal friend

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

  • $100k (Argentina, President )

  • $50k (SF, Cofounder/CTO )

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

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

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

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

  • $15k (SF, )

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

  • $10k (SF, Entrepreneur/CEO at )

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

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

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

  • $10k (Belgium, Cofounder/CEO at )

We did a Series Seed lead by in June 2017 ($9M pre valuation, , ), including:

$1M , , ()

$350k Angel list syndicate lead by and

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