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> $80 million Series A round...Oscar had previously raised $75 million in seed funding Is that what counts as a seed round these days?!
by tomblomfield 12y ago
> $80 million Series A round...Oscar had previously raised $75 million in seed funding
Is that what counts as a seed round these days?!
- trhway 12y agodepends on founders. Anything less than such numbers these guys would probably self-financed using their lunch money: >Josh Kushner—whose VC fund has backed hot start ups like Spotify, Nasty Gal, ResearchGate, Codecademy, Warby Parker and Instagram—[...cut...]. With the goal of hacking Obamacare, Kushner built Oscar in-house with cofounders Kevin Nazemi (a former director at Microsoft’s health care division) and Mario Schlosser (a data junkie who worked previously at Bridgewater Associates and McKinsey & Company ).