David Rusenko
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And we weren't really sure how we were going to make it through, but demo day was coming up and we were sort of cautiously optimistic.
We ended up, so it was 20K from Y Combinator in January.
We made that stretch about four months.
That was your first round, essentially, 20K.
Effectively, that was the first round.
And what have you raised today?
Today, we've raised just a little over $35 million in primary capital.
Yeah, we've done a little bit.
And I think primary capital is the best way to look at the business, basically, is like how much it actually taken in.
And we actually so not to kind of just to skip through the story really quickly.
I'm a six hundred fifty six hundred and fifty K was in April of 2007.
You know, kind of just continued scaling the business from there.
In 2014, we raised thirty five million from Sequoia and Tencent.
And today we actually have more cash in the bank than we've raised.
You would be actually surprised.
Um, that's not how our board meetings go at all.
Um, they, uh, I think, I think the key is having the right investors and we've been super, super lucky to have investors who are the best of the best.
Right.
So it starts off with Y Combinator.
Um, you then have, uh, Ron Conway, Steve Anderson, Mike Maples, um, you know, I didn't, you know, the sort of best known angels.