Disco's seed round was 3x oversubscribed with $15M in investor interest
Candice Faktor · Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin? · Mar 18, 2022 · at 7:43
Candice Faktor describes the investor demand for Disco's $5 million seed round.
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“We were three times oversubscribed for that round. We had, you know, fifteen million of interest.”
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