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Photon Raises $4.5M From Gradient

San Francisco-based Photon, startup, raised $4.5M Seed from Gradient. adding to the $4.5 million in seed funding it announced earlier. San Francisco-based Photon, startup, raised $4.5M Seed from...

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Photon Raises $4.5M From Gradient
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Photon raises $4.5M in a seed from Gradient.

San Francisco-based Photon startup. Daniel Tian (Co-founder leads the company.

Photon will use the capital to scale iMessage business messaging for regulated industries, continue developing Spectrum SDK, and onboard design partners.. 50 paying customers, revenue grew 10x from May to August, 1 million end users in under a year.

"{"quote_text"=>"We started Photon because a friend could not tell our agent from a person in his own iMessage thread, and that told us where agents actually belong.", "quote_speaker"=>"Daniel Tian"}," said Daniel Tian (Co-founder, CEO),.

The round brings Photon's total funding to $4.5 million in seed funding.

Company Photon
HQ San Francisco
Round Seed
Amount $4.5M
Lead investor Gradient
Founders Daniel Tian (Co-founder, CEO), Ryan Zhu
Sector Messaging Infrastructure
Source Techfundingnews

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