In the midst of a funding crapshoot for young startups, The Grand, a four-year-old startup that provides career coaching as a service, has raised $4.7 million in a round of seed funding led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six.
You could say founders Anita Hossain Choudhry and Rei Wang had a leg up on creating the pitch deck they used to convince venture capitalists to back their startup. They’ve seen countless presentations like it. The two met as employees at First Round Capital, where Hossain Choudhry led initiatives from summits to content and Wang ran its student-focused venture fund, Dorm Room Fund, before striking out to start a company of their own.
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