Key, a community and networking platform provider situated in Palo Alto, California, has successfully raised $4.3 million in investment.
The round was led by Felicis, and it included participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Archangels Ventures, Cerigo Investments, Everywhere Ventures, Startup Shibuya, MVP Ventures, and Xoogler Ventures. Additionally, angel investors such as Bradley Horowitz, Caesar Sengupta, Asha Jadeja, Qasar Younis, Kevin Chou, Jonah and Noah Goodhart, Avichal Garg, Prabhakar Reddy, Raghu Yarlagadda, Vibhu Mittal, Anthony Lacavera, Ali Moiz, and a large number of former and current employees of companies such as Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Uber, Stripe, Palantir, Doordash, Waymo, Cruise, and McKinsey participated in the round.
The money are being utilized by the company in order to grow its operations as well as its development activities.
Key is an innovative platform that was meant to alter the environment for professional networking and community participation. It is led by Kushagra Shrivastava and Christopher Fong. In order to meet the requirements of modern professionals, it provides a variety of features, which include the following:
- Advanced networking features enabled by artificial intelligence that connect users with experts and mentors that share similar interests.
- Tools and resources for career planning and skill development that are adapted to the changing nature of the labor market is provided.
- An encouraging community platform that allows for the exchange of experiences, recommendations, and possibilities.