Meg Whitman Joins Zaarly Board as it Closes on $14M
San Francisco-based mobile commerce startup Zaarly has added Hewlett-Packard chief executive and former eBay chief Meg Whitman to its board. Zaarly has created a mobile, local marketplace that allows users to buy and sell with people in their neighborhoods. Zaarly has also announced a newly closed $14.1 million Series A funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' iFund and Sands Capital Ventures. Additional investors include CMEA, Venture51, Crunchfund, Marc Ecko, and Artists and Instigators. John Suliman of Sands Capital Ventures, and Chi-Hua Chien of KPCB have also joined the board.
25 October 2011•4 mins read
