We're excited to announce our investment in Keychain, which houses the world’s largest consumer packaged goods database that uses AI to help retailers and brands identify the best manufacturing partners.?Keychain is making incredible progress in what we believe is just the beginning.
It’s been only 9 months since we launched Keychain… and today we announced a big traction milestone and some new funding. Over $500m of projects were posted on Keychain in October, and we raised $15m of new capital from some wonderful investors. I want to welcome our new investors Steven Schweiger, at General Mills, Blair Tritt at Schreiber Foods and say thank you to our existing investors for their continued support; David Tisch at BoxGroup, Raviraj Jain and Alex Taussig at Lightspeed, and Steven Lee at SV Angel. I’m incredibly grateful to the 20k+ brands and retailers who turn to us to help them bring products to market. Thank you. We’re at an interesting inflection where every week we are now hearing about brands and retailers going in to production because they found their manufacturer on Keychain. As always, none of this would be possible without our wonderful team, who now outnumber linkedin tagging limits- special shout out to Mitchell Madoff, Emily Roberts, Shubhadit Sharma, Samridhi Sindhu, Jessica Chasin, Lacey Chaum, Rebecca Beatty, Jess Lipkind, Romy Lynch, Ben Ratner, Gregory Pang, Teddy Callow, Deena Byrne, Julia Ott, Chessney Goodman, Aarya S., Lakshay Dutt, Akil Vohra, Kim Ryng, Nick Newell, Grant Patton, Christian Montoya, Dhrubesh D., Bhavya Chawla, and Darshan R.. And thank you to Paolo Confino at Fortune for writing the story… From Umang Dua, Jordan Weitz and I - thank you. https://lnkd.in/eKENJPxx