Smashing
Company

Last deal

$3.4M

Amount

Seed

Stage

25.06.2024

Date

1

all rounds

$3.4M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Smashing is a new app aimed at addressing the increasingly problematic issues of content overload and social media burnout.

founded date

2021

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout
Legal Names

Legal name

DailyReader Inc

Financials

Funding Rounds
1
1

Number of Funding Rounds

$3.4M

Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 25.06.2024. Their latest investor Balaji Srinivasan. Their latest round Seed

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
25.06.2024
13
$3.4M
Co-Investors
Investors
13
0

Number of lead investors

13

Number of investors

Investor 
Lead 
Round 
Partners 
Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

current job

Stanford Bitcoin Group

count Of Investments

140
Blockchange Ventures

Blockchange Ventures

Blockchange Ventures is a venture capital firm in New York that invests in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Blockchain, Venture Capital, Financial Services

Location

New York, NY, USA

count Of Investments

54

count Of Exists

3
Abe Burns

Abe Burns

Abe Burns is President, Digital for management company Maverick and partner at Ashton Kutcher & Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures & A-Grade Investments. Burns works directly with Maverick's client roster that includes Madonna, U2 and Amy Schumer. Prior to this, Abe ran digital at Frontline Management, Variety Magazine and SONY Music Entertainment. Abe was named 'Trendsetter to Watch' by Digital Media Wire and one of Billboard's 30 under 30.

current job

A-Grade Investments
A-Grade Investments

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