May Al-Kharouni
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Exactly.
Not quite that because there was some earlier ones, obviously, but yeah, getting close in the dollar stage, yeah.
Yeah, we actually, so really interesting.
I actually bootstrapped for four years because there was no market cap in the industry.
So I only got VC funding late 2018 and we got 750,000 from VC and we've been running off that since actually.
So we were due for a fundraiser last year in COVID, but that stopped everything in the works, especially in the UK.
So we'll probably start it up this year again.
Oh, sorry, beg your pardon.
That was only 200,000 because I just got the money in the VC side and growing the team to around eight people.
At the end of 2019, yes, eight people.
Today, actually, we've got five.
Because, yeah, just because of COVID and we just basically lost a couple to the US, actually.
They moved back.
So we're recruiting again.
And hopefully we'll be eight soon.
Actually, we've got two.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's one and me.
I class as a salesman.
Yeah.