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Velocity raised $3M from friends and family before closing $12M institutionally

David Dunne · 729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World? · Jul 23, 2017 · at 10:53

David Dunne, CEO of enterprise intelligence platform Velocity, discusses the company's capitalization history with host Nathan Latka.

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“We, friends and family probably put in about three million into the business in the early years, and then we just closed an institutional round for about twelve million at the end of last year, beginning of this year.”

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The claim, plainly

Velocity raised approximately $3 million from friends and family in its early years and closed an institutional round of approximately $12 million around late 2016 or early 2017.

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Assessment

The claim contains two distinct legs regarding the funding history of Velocidi (founded by then-CEO David Dunne). The institutional round is verified: contemporaneous announcements and venture database records confirm that Velocidi closed a $12 million Series A round in late 2016 (announced in January 2017) led by Pilot Growth Equity with participation from Neuberger Berman Private Equity Funds. However, the first leg regarding approximately $3 million raised from friends and family in the early years is not confirmed by independent venture databases (such as PitchBook, Crunchbase, or Tracxn) or public SEC Form D filings, existing in public records solely via the founder's own statements.

On January 11-12, 2017, Velocidi announced the completion of a $12 million Series A growth equity financing round led by Pilot Growth Equity with participation from Neuberger Berman Private Equity Funds.
Venture databases (PitchBook, Tracxn, NB Private Equity portfolio updates) record the $12 million round as closing in late 2016 / January 2017.
No public SEC Form D filings or independent contemporaneous venture records corroborate the explicit $3 million friends-and-family early round outside of founder interviews.

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