Rom Lacritz personally invested roughly $100K cash before Anchor raised venture funding
Rom Lakritz · He Said No Once and They Tripled the Offer · Aug 9, 2024 · at 9:35
Rom Lacritz, CEO and co-founder of Anchor, discusses the initial capital and unpaid time invested by the founding team before raising outside funding.
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“So before we raised funds, I probably invested somewhere around a 100,000 dollars. Give or take and then travel and design and building the product and infrastructure and stuff like that. We were three partners. So it's not including, you know, three salaries. That's another muscle menace with a level of people, another million dollars which was invested just in time.”
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