> In July 2013, Zenefits announced the completion of a seed round led by Venrock and Maverick Capital, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Yuri Milner, General Catalyst Partners, Garry Tan, Justin Kan and Alexis Ohanian. The round also included angel investments from Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever, former Googler and Twitter VP of Corporate Strategy Elad Gil, Weebly co-founder David Rusenko, former Googler and Badoo COO Ben Ling, Google’s Head of Spam Slamming Matt Cutts, BuildZoom co-founder and CEO David Petersen, and Inkling co-founder and CEO, Matt MacInnis. (...) Including the company's initial US$372,000 raised from Y Combinator,
Sad to see people like Alexis Ohanian and Matt Cutts in there, people that I personally respect. It's also interesting that Y Combinator and their founders haven't said anything of interest regarding this whole mess since it started, or maybe they're all waiting for it to calm down and for business to proceed as usual.
From the company's wiki page:
> In July 2013, Zenefits announced the completion of a seed round led by Venrock and Maverick Capital, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Yuri Milner, General Catalyst Partners, Garry Tan, Justin Kan and Alexis Ohanian. The round also included angel investments from Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever, former Googler and Twitter VP of Corporate Strategy Elad Gil, Weebly co-founder David Rusenko, former Googler and Badoo COO Ben Ling, Google’s Head of Spam Slamming Matt Cutts, BuildZoom co-founder and CEO David Petersen, and Inkling co-founder and CEO, Matt MacInnis. (...) Including the company's initial US$372,000 raised from Y Combinator,
Sad to see people like Alexis Ohanian and Matt Cutts in there, people that I personally respect. It's also interesting that Y Combinator and their founders haven't said anything of interest regarding this whole mess since it started, or maybe they're all waiting for it to calm down and for business to proceed as usual.