# Investors

We did a first pre-seed round of $500k in October 2015 ([deck](https://www.dropbox.com/s/klwxkewuf9mnjy1/OpenCollective.pdf?dl=0), [SAFE](https://www.ycombinator.com/docs/SAFE_Cap.rtf), $5M cap) with:

* $250k [General Catalyst](http://generalcatalyst.com) (SF/NYC/Boston, [Hemant Taneja](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemanttaneja))
* $50k [Jonathan Siegel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsiegel) (can't pin down his location)
* $50k [Belcube](http://belcube.com) (Brussels)
* $50k [Tony Jamous](https://www.linkedin.com/in/teljamou) (London, [Nexmo](https://nexmo.com))
* $25k [Eric Nadalin](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/enadalin) (London, [Nexmo](https://nexmo.com))
* $25k [Brian Larson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-larson-43904010) (SF, engineer at Google, Twitter)
* $15k [Guillermo Rauch](https://twitter.com/rauchg) (SF/Buenos Aires, [socket.io](http://socket.io))
* $10k [Dries Buytaert](http://buytaert.net) (Boston, [Drupal](https://drupal.org))
* $10k [Underscore.vc](http://underscore.vc) (Boston)
* $5k [Toon Vanagt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/toonvanagt) (Brussels, [data.be](http://data.be))
* $5k [Xavier Corman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xaviercorman) (Brussels, [Edebex](http://edebex.com))
* $5k Personal friend

We did a follow up round of $315k in July 2016 ([SAFE](https://www.ycombinator.com/docs/SAFE_Cap.rtf), $8M cap) with:

* $100k [Ricardo Gorodisch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-gorodisch-9b057889) (Argentina, President [Foundation Kaleidos](http://www.fundacionkaleidos.org/))
* $50k [Pete Koomen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petekoomen) (SF, Cofounder/CTO [Optimizely](http://optimizely.com))
* $25k [Jim Payne](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpayne) (NYC, Cofounder MoPub, EIR Accel Partners)
* $25k [Caesar Sengupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/caesar-sengupta-2743b) (Bay Area, VP Product Management at Google)
* $20k [Gautam Gandhi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gkgandhi) (India, Entrepreneur, former Head New Business Development India at Google)
* $15k [Tom Brown](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tpbrown5) (FinTech lawyer, partner at Paul Hastings, former VP at Visa )
* $15k [Sam De Brouwer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-de-brouwer-b0a34122) (SF, [TEDxSanFrancisco](http://www.tedxsanfrancisco.com))
* $15k Vadim (NYC/Bay Area/Buenos Aires)
* $10k [John Kobs](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkobs) (SF, Entrepreneur/CEO at [ApartmentList](http://apartmentlist.com))
* $10k [Nicolas Wittenborn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaswittenborn) (Berlin, principal at point 9 venture)
* $10k [Derek Parham](https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-parham-b7b5504) (NYC, deputy CTO at Hillary For America)
* $10k [Henry Bridge](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbridge) (NYC, Director of Product at Hillary For America)
* $10k [Antoine Perdaens](https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoineperdaens) (Belgium, Cofounder/CEO at [KnowledgePlaza](http://knowledgeplaza.net))

We did a Series Seed lead by [Bloomberg Beta](https://www.bloombergbeta.com) in June 2017 ($9M pre valuation, [Term Sheet](https://www.dropbox.com/s/wa41eciscon8agv/Open%20Collective%20-%20Series%20Seed%20Term%20Sheet.pdf?dl=0), [Stock Investment Agreement](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ial1g8cfr2apn73/Open%20Collective%20-%20Stock%20Investment%20Agreement%20\(Series%20Seed\).redacted.pdf?dl=0)), including:

* $1M [James Cham](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcham), [Roy Bahat](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roybahat/), [Karin Klein](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinklein/) ([Bloomberg Beta](https://www.bloombergbeta.com))
* $350k Angel list syndicate lead by [Dave Eisenberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveeisenberg/) and [Nadia Eghbal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadiaeghbal/)
* $200k [Nicholas Chirls](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nchirls/) ([Notation Capital](http://notationcapital.com))
* $150k [Dave Eisenberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveeisenberg/)
* $100k [Semil Shah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/semilshah/) ([Haystack.vc](http://haystack.vc))
* $40k [Armin Steuernagel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/armin-steuernagel-9719b1b/) ([Purpose.ag](http://purpose-economy.org/en/))
* $35k [Ramy Adeeb](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramyadeeb/) ([1984.vc](https://1984.vc))
* $25k [John Kobs](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkobs) (SF, Entrepreneur/CEO at [ApartmentList](http://apartmentlist.com))
* $25k [Randy Reddig](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ydnar/) ([Square](https://square.com))
* $25k [Noah Weiss](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahw/)
* $20k [Jack Herrick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackherrick/) ([WikiHow.com](https://wikihow.com))
* $10k [Kyle Wild](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylewild/) ([Keen.io](https://keen.io))
* $10k [Sam Gerstenzang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samgerstenzang/)
* $10k [David King](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkingsf/)