Florio: Foxy sits between investor tiers and does not need capital
Brett Florio · 1141 Not shopify, not stripe, $2b+ in transaction volume processed · Sep 8, 2018 · at 15:00
Brett Florio, co-founder of Foxy, explains why his team easily resisted taking institutional venture capital.
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“We've found that once we started getting on people's radars, we are not big enough For certain types of investors, and we're too big for others, so we, what we need less than money would be the team that the money brings, and we tend to, we're just, we don't really need the money.”
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