That amount includes $3.25 million in a seed round led by First Round Capital, Floodgate Fund, and angel investors including SV Angel Ron Conway, Founder Collective's Caterina Fake, Felicis Ventures' Aydin Senkut, The Consigliere's Mike Duda, Red Swan Ventures' Andy Dunn, Forerunner Ventures' Kirsten Green, and Ashton Kutcher, and a $8.5 million Series A round led by General Catalyst Partners.
Luckily, there's still plenty of capital sloshing around the fake meat venture ecosystem to fuel further innovation.
Local, Local, Local: We're curious to see how hyperlocal guides and services like LocalMind, which lets users broadcast questions to the public, as well as Caterina Fake's latest venture, Pinwheel, which lets people leave tips and notes for one another in the real world, play out during South by Southwest.
As Facebook grapples with product changes to fend off fake news, every venture-backed company should evaluate how product design affects their communities, for better or worse.
Must be great word of mouth for Bouley!" His fake Restaurant Girl also ventures into more cosmic concerns: "Does anyone know what happens to all the chocolate bunnies no one bought for Easter?
Their weird, totally not faked body painting venture, was the best date of the three.
And "when you have a failed pitch," says Fake, "you meet many more venture capitalists than you really want to".
She has largely been inspired by the growing number of women in both entrepreneurship and venture capital, suggested Fake.
It previously raised a total of $4.6 million from Union Square Ventures and angels Caterina Fake, Stewart Butterfield, Joshua Schachter, and Albert Wenger.
(The board is made up of founder Rob Kalin, Caterina Fake, Accel partner Jim Breyer and Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson).
