Bruce: Cirrus Insight raised just over $1M total, none in 3 years
Brandon Bruce · 982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You! · Apr 2, 2018 · at 5:02
Brandon Bruce, co-founder of Cirrus Insight, details the company's historical funding with Nathan Latka.
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“So our total raise all in has been a little over a million since the time we started six years ago, but we haven't taken on any additional capital, I'd say, in the last three years.”
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