{"id":658503,"date":"2013-05-16T16:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=646296"},"modified":"2013-05-16T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:51:37","slug":"jelly-raises-series-a-from-investors-including-jack-dorsey-al-gore-bono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658503","title":{"rendered":"Jelly raises Series A from investors including Jack Dorsey, Al Gore, Bono"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s startup Jelly still hasn’t revealed a product — it hasn’t even hinted at a direction — but the startup has announced a good deal of news over the past month. On Thursday, the company announced in a blog post that it raised a Series A funding round<\/a> for an undisclosed amount led by\u00a0Spark Capital with investment from SV Angel.<\/p>\n

A wide variety of angel investors\u00a0participated in the round, possibly emphasizing the “social good” concept Stone hinted at in his intial launch post<\/a>. Stone, who co-founded Twitter, has only described Jelly as a company with an eye for “social good” that takes advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices.<\/p>\n

The investors include fellow Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, U2 musician and activist Bono, Greylock’s Reid Hoffman, former Vice President Al Gore, and Emmy-winning director Greg Yaitanes, among several others.<\/p>\n

“They work in divergent fields,” Stone wrote. “Knowledge diversity is something we prize highly and is also something that will be represented in our product.”<\/p>\n

Stone has been building up a good deal of ex-Twitter talent at the company, and the funding announcement noted that they would use the addition funding for hiring as they continue protyping a product before launch.\u00a0Earlier this month, Stone announced that he added a COO in Kevin Thau, the Twitter executive<\/a> who launched Twitter #music, and a co-founder and CTO in\u00a0Ben Finkel, formerly engineering manager at Twitter<\/a> in charge of user growth.<\/p>\n

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