According to Business Insider, a technology news website, September 7 Beijing time, Ben Kaufman, a 24-year-old man) quirky, a popular New York startup company, recently made $68 million in C-round financing. This means that Quirky has received $2009 in funding since its founding in 91.3 million.
This round of financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz, a new investor in KPCB. Quirky added two new board members: Scott Weiss from Anderson huates and Mary Meeker from KPCB ). Ws' most famous title is perhaps Hotmail's 13th employees. At that time, Hotmail was not yet acquired by Microsoft. Western was also co-founder of IronPort, which was subsequently acquired by Cisco.
Mikel, known as the "internet Queen", initially served as an influential Internet stock analyst at Morgan Stanley. At KPCB, Michael has invested in famous companies including Groupon, Square and Spotify.
Quirky allows people to easily turn their ideas into products in real life. People upload their ideas at a price of 10 US dollars, and then the readers will decide which idea is the best. If a idea is selected, Quirky will produce the product and pay the license fee for the product for life.
Quirky has launched more than 200 products, many of which are sold in retailer stores. Popular products include distributed Power, Cordies, and Crates. The company has paid the inventor a licensing fee of more than $2 million, with 0.26 million users participating in the website.