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Lassen: Fuse raised over $18M across six pre-revenue years

Anders Lassen · 896 How Fuse Plans to Introduce Paid Product to Free Community Built Over 5+ Years · Jan 6, 2018 · at 5:34

Anders Lassen details how Fuse funded six years of product development prior to launching version 1.0.

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“We raised over eighteen million dollars in that timeframe.”

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The claim, plainly

Fuse raised over $18 million in venture funding between 2011 and 2017 prior to launching version 1.0.

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Assessment

Venture capital tracking records and contemporaneous press reports confirm that Fuse (originally Outracks Technologies AS, later Fusetools AS) raised approximately $18.7 million to $19.0 million USD in venture funding between 2011 and January 2017 across multiple funding rounds (including $3.5 million in June 2014, $2.8 million in January 2015, and $12.0 million in January 2017). All of these rounds occurred prior to the release of Fuse version 1.0 in late May 2017.

Independent reporting by VentureBeat (January 24, 2017) confirmed a $12.0 million USD Series A round led by Northzone and Alliance Venture, adding to prior rounds of $3.5 million (2014) and $2.8 million (2015).
Forbes reported on October 5, 2018, that Fuse had raised a cumulative total of $18.7 million USD.
Release logs confirm Fuse version 1.0.0 was released in late May 2017, after the January 2017 Series A round had already closed.

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[1] mortend.co [2] forbes.com [3] tracxn.com [4] startupbeat.com [5] finsmes.com [6] venturebeat.com [7] tracxn.com [8] finansavisen.no

"Fuse" "1.0" OR "version 1.0" "Fusetools" launch date OR launched "Fusetools" Northzone Alliance Venture funding "Fusetools" funding raised million "Fuse" "Anders Lassen" raised funding million OR "Series A" OR "Series B" "Fusetools" "version 1.0" OR "Fuse 1.0"

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