Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Zaarly Gets $14M

Zaarly, the mobile marketplace firm which was spawned out of the LA Startup Weekend event, said today that it has raised $14.1M in a funding round, and added former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to its board. The new funding comes from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sands Capital Ventures, CMEA, VEnture51, CrunchFund, Marc Ecko, and Artists & Instigators. The firm also has previously received investments from Ron Conway and Ashton Kutcher, among others. Zaarly was created at the LA Startup Weekend earlier this year at Coloft; the firm is located in San Francisco.

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