Hurt: Goldman Sachs invested $40M in Data.world's $50M Series C
Brett Hurt · How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats · Jun 6, 2023 · at 18:10
Brett Hurt, CEO of Data.world, breaks down the funding amount and lead investor for Data.world's Series C round.
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“The last round we raised was from Goldman Sachs. That was a fifty million dollar round. They put in forty million of that fifty million and we were oversubscribed on the remaining.”
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