Cord Project, a Brooklyn, NY-based New York-based voice startup, closed $1.8m in seed funding.
Backers included:
Metamorphic Ventures (co-lead) – Partner: David Hirsch
Lerer Hippeau Ventures (co-lead) – Partner: Kenneth Lerer
Google Ventures – Partner: Kevin Rose
Greycroft Ventures – Partner: Kamran Ansari
Slow Ventures – Partner: Dave Morin
Vayner/RSE – Partner: Gary Vaynerchuk
Kernel Investissements – Partner: Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Melo7 Tech Partners – Partners: Carmelo Anthony & Stuart Goldfarb
Xavier Niel via NJJ Capital
Thibaud Elziere
Mats Carduner
Michael Ogrinz
Ed Sanders
Brett Crosby
Mark Yoshitake
Ricky Van Veen
The company is using the funds for a worldwide launch on multiple platforms (in the fall) while expanding its four-person team with a number of iOS and Android developers (read here).
Co-founded by Jeff Baxter and Thomas Gayno, Cord Project provides Cord, an app for simple “one tap voice chat” across a wide variety of devices. An early version of the application is now available on iOS while a full release on Android (and iOS as well) is expected in the fall of 2014.
FinSMEs
04/09/2014