PinMeTo Retains Entire Series A Capital After Bootstrapping Through 2021
Daniel Melkerson · Their Upsell Org is Hitting 150% Expansion Quotas on Way to $6m ARR · Apr 4, 2022 · at 8:56
PinMeTo co-founder Daniel Melkerson discusses cash management and capital efficiency following their Series A fundraise.
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“Yeah, we have all the money left. So we did pretty much last year bootstrap.”
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