Joyrun, A Food Delivery App With A Twist, Raises $8.5 Million

Lora Kolodny, TechCrunch
Thu, 03/30/2017 - 5:58am

A Santa Clara, Calif. startup called JoyRun has raised about $10 million in Series A and seed funding for its peer-to-peer food and drinks delivery app. Floodgate led the $8.5 million Series A round in JoyRun, and Norwest Venture Partners led the company’s earlier $1.3 million seed round. Other investors joining both rounds included: Visionnaire Ventures, Morado Ventures, CrunchFund… Read More

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