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Looking to take advantage of these powerful emerging trends, d.light, a startup founded by two Stanford Business School alums, has raised $22 million in its latest round of financing.The company was launched at聽the height of the first push by young entrepreneurs into renewables in the 2006-2007 timeframe.For d.light, inspiration for its initial product came from an accident聽that d.light co-founder Sam Goldman witnessed during his time working with the Peace Corps in Benin.Goldman witnessed an accident involving a neighbor child who accidentally knocked over a kerosene lamp, spilling the fuel on himself and suffering third degree burns across his body.Goldman had seen similar lamps all his life while moving from country to country as a child. When he returned to the states for business school, the ide stanley canada a of creating a low-cost, solar-powered replacement for the lamp became his focus.Business school was where he met Ned Tozun, who had聽similar dreams of chan stanley tumbler ging the ener stanley cup gy a Yeqn Microsoft Now Builds Nearly 95% Of All Windows Phones
The total raise is said to be eight figures, and Sequoia* and KPCB are participating, our sources tell us, although the company has been talking to multiple other VCs. The Information has also reported the rumors.Asked for confi vaso stanley rmation on聽the funding, Butterfield would not comment directly except to say that 2014 has been crazy, and that it would be very likely that his company would raise money some time & 8 stanley thermos 220;in the next six years. Butt stanley cups erfield is known for his sometimes colorful ways聽with words. Slack which lets businesses plug in various other apps and then aggregate progress feeds and previews together in one place has been growing rapidly since launching at the end of 2013.TechCrunch understands that the company is currently clocking up 250,000 daily active users, and that in its freemium business model, about one-third of its & 8220 eats are paid. As a point of comparison, at the end of April the company had 60,000 daily active users