Tech Company Financing Transactions
WaitWhat Funding Round
On 6/22/2021, WaitWhat landed $12 million in funding from Raga Partners, BurdaPrincipal Investments and Capital One Growth Ventures.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
6/22/2021
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$12,000,000
Round
Undisclosed
Investors
Raga Partners (Lead Investor) (Atul Joshi)
Cue Ball Group (Tony Tjan)
private investors (Reid Hoffman)
Proceeds Purpose
WaitWhat says it plans to use the money to continue producing content in formats that have already proven very successful for it so far -- to date, it has seen 70 million downloads of its work, which includes the podcasts Masters of Scale.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Digital Media & VR & AR
Mailing Address
26 Bdwy. 8th Floor
New York, NY 10004
USA
New York, NY 10004
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Overview
WaitWhat is a joyful new start-up from former TED execs June Cohen and Deron Triff. For a combined 16 years, June and Deron launched and led media at TED -- TED.com, TED Open Translation Project, TED Radio Hour, TED Books, TED in Cinema, etc. -- resulting in more than 1 billion annual views and listens of the organization's content.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
June Cohen
VP - Administration
Mina Kurasawa
VP - Bus. Development
Deron Triff
VP - Engineering
Sarah Sandman
VP - Engineering
Michael Twentyman
VP - Finance
Edmund Cheng
VP - Manufacturing
Jai Punjabi
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