McConnell: NthRound raised $4.3M in seed round
Graham McConnell · NthRound Hits $300k ARR Creating Liquidity for Employee Option Grants · Oct 11, 2020 · at 4:18
Graham McConnell, co-founder and CEO of NthRound, shares the size of the startup's seed funding round with Nathan Latka.
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“We raised 4.3 million for our seed round.”
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