Dan La Savita

Michael put in the lion's share of capital.

So that kind of got us started.

We're, I think, a good position from that standpoint.

We can hire people from day one.

We weren't really hardcore bootstrapping, per se.

And then we ended up raising kind of a pre-seed round on safes and then quickly followed that up with what ended up being our seed round that first round led, which we

weren't really looking to do, but after meeting a partner there, Todd, we thought it was the right thing to do.

How much was that pre-seed round for and what year?

So we did, both of those were last year.

The pre-seed round, we raised 3 million on a $15 million post-money valuation cap on the safes.

And then we followed that up with another 6.1 that first round led.

No, we haven't disclosed the valuation on the 6.1, but it was in the tens of millions.

I think it was a

It was a good jump up from where we did our, our pre-seed, uh, kind of pre-seed.

Yeah.

So we had good runway.

We had cash in the bank.

It was two things.

It was, I met Todd Jackson.

Uh, we got to know each other, you know, over the course of a few weeks, he was the, you know, former founder.