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Vancouver's top seed investor wrote an early cheque to Robinhood, a $40 billion unicorn

Vancouver's top seed investor wrote an early cheque to Robinhood, a $40 billion unicorn

The VC also made early investments in Carbon Health and OccamzRazor.

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Apr 06, 2021
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Vancouver's top seed investor wrote an early cheque to Robinhood, a $40 billion unicorn
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Image from Robinhood, $40 billion unicorn startup.

Robinhood, the fast-growing, Silicon Valley-based stock trading app, grew its revenue from $9.3 million in 2016 to $682 million in 2020. As a seed investor in the startup, Vancouver’s Dr. E. Bora Uygun wrote one of the first cheques to the juggernaut, now reportedly worth $40 billion.

That investment is j…

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