AUSTIN, TX—Comfy, a rental marketplace targeted to student housing users, has completed an initial $600,000 round of seed funding.
The funding effort was led by Mike Lee, partner at Dominion Ventures. Austin Ventures and a variety of other prominent angel investors also contributed to the round. Comfy has developed an intuitive mobile and web platform that uses a proprietary algorithm to leverage online feedback and intelligently match college and university students with their best matches for off-campus housing.
In addition to Lee and Austin Ventures, a world-class team of angel investors have contributed capital, including: former Brocade Communication Systems CEO and founder of Rhapsody Networks Mike Klayko, former Skull Candy CEO Jeremy Andrus, Mark Harris, Jared Stone, and others. Investors' portfolios and past investments include HomeAway, Hotmail, Outbound Engine, Tivoli, Mortgage.com, among others.
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David Phillips
David Phillips is a Chicago-based freelance writer and consultant with more than 20 years experience in business and community news. He also has extensive reporting experience in the food manufacturing industry for national trade publications.
