Francisco Larrain: Sudo.ai raised a $2.3M seed round at $8M pre-money
Francisco Larrain · EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain · Jan 30, 2017 · at 17:44
Francisco Larrain, co-founder of conversational AI startup Sudo.ai, breaks down the terms and valuation of their seed funding round.
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“In the seed round. We did an eight, eight million pre-money budget.”
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