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Messer: Collective[i] never raised a $20M Series A

Stephen Messer · He Sold his First Company for $425m, Here's What He Did Next · Jan 12, 2023 · at 14:07

Stephen Messer, co-founder of Collective[i], clarifies company funding history after Nathan Latka asks about public Crunchbase records.

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“There is no twenty million dollars series A. It's actually much more money than that into this company.”

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The claim, plainly

Collective[i] never raised a $20 million Series A round, and its founders have invested significantly more than that into the company.

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Requires access to private cap table data, internal financial statements, or banking records of Collective[i] to verify that no $20M Series A funding round took place and that the founders personally invested more than $20M into the business.

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