Karkanen: OneIO raised a $1M seed and a $7M round in 2022
Yanni Karkanen · This is how I want to live. Buy 1/8th of a house, stay for 44 nights. Founder Raises $17.4m, $2m+ in revenue already. · Jul 1, 2022 · at 5:24
Yanni Karkanen is the founder and CEO of OneIO, discussing the company's funding history with Nathan Latka.
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“We had like a minor seed funding for about one million. It was 2019, 2018. And this year we raised our first round of seven million.”
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