The Smart Cup No One Needs Has Raised $3m — And Might Go To China

Kia Kokalitcheva, VentureBeat
Thu, 08/21/2014 - 10:01am

While most of us continue to make fun of smart cup Vessyl, it keeps on going. After selling $1 million in pre-orders and hiring former Apple and Nike execs, Mark One, the company behind Vessyl, is revealing today that investors gave it money before any of us even began to write our “smart cup” jokes.

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