💸 Hearth Display Raises $4.7M for Its Digital Whiteboards for Family Task Management
FemWealth Issue #127
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In the Spotlight 💸
Co-founded by Mei Lin Ng, Susie Harrison, and Nathalie Stratton, Hearth Display, a hardware company making digital whiteboards for family task management raised $4.7 million in a seed extension funding round.
“We have been able to learn so much about interactions that are happening inside the family in terms of person to person, household management, routines of kids. We have been able to start building our own model based on that information. The way we are looking to use that is by introducing some predictive workflow for families.” - Hearth Display’s founders (via TechCrunch)
Female Founders Fund, Stellation Capital, Sweater Ventures, Behind Genius Ventures, an SPV led by Golden Hour Ventures and Dream Ventures, and Ingeborg Investments participated in the bridge round.
Read more: Smart display company Hearth Display raises $4.7M additional funding
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