Karat Financial

Karat Financial offers business credit cards for digital creators and influencers.

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TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Karat Financial | 832 days from website to first raise on record

@trykarat·Raised $26M in 1 sourced round·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. July 1, 2021
   Series A · $26M
   UUnion Square Ventures (lead), CCarter Sharer, CCrossbeam Venture Partners, GGraham Stephan, JJared Leto, JJosh Richards, JJustin David Blau, NNotable Capital, SSignalFire, SStandard.Tv
   Source: techcrunch.com
2. April 15, 2020
   X account created
3. Winter 2020
   YY Combinator · batch
   Source: ycombinator.com
4. March 22, 2019
   Website created

Founders and team

• WK
  Will Kim Cofounder & Co-CEO

  @iamwillkim · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• EW
  Eric Wei Cofounder at Karat- helping creators w money

  LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• AI
  Arjun Iyer Head Of Engineering

Investors

• BBiz Stone
• CCarter Sharer
• CCrossbeam Venture Partners
• CCRV
• DDreamers VC
• GGGV Capital
• GGraham Stephan
• JJared Leto
• JJosh Richards
• JJustin David Blau
• MMANA Talent Group
• NNick DiGiovanni
• NNotable Capital
• SSignalFire
• SStandard.Tv
• SSteve Chen
• TTriplePoint Capital
• UUnion Square Ventureslead investor
• YY Combinatoraccelerator

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