Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 5)

SM: What else should we be talking about in your story? GC: We now have 17 employees. We moved to a new office. We used to be in a basement in Palo Alto, and now we are in San Mateo.

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SM: Can you give me an example of an application Veodia is supporting? GC: We built a plug-in for Clearspace that allows you to record a video from within Clearspace. Any employee can create video and share it internally with other employees, as well as sharing or receiving videos from clients.

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Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 3)

SM: Did you have any VCs talking to you, or just the angels? GC: At the time I took the money from the angels, I had some offers from VCs. We ended up going with the angels as it allowed us to build more value and wait to raise VC money under better terms. Angels

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