US-based voice messaging service Cord Project secured $1.8m on Thursday in a seed round featuring Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company Google.
Venture capital firms Metamorphic Ventures and Lerer Hippeau Ventures co-led the round, which included Slow Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Gary Vaynerchuk of Vayner RSE, basketball player Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb of Melo7 Tech Partners.
Cord Project is a voice messaging platform that lets you chat with one friend or shout at a whole group of friends. The Cord app also allows users to save messages. The funds will be used to support a worldwide launch of the app across multiple platforms, and to hire additional staff.
Jeff Baxter, co-founder of Cord Project, said: “We’re designing a product that is incredibly simple, not only to make voice easy to use again, but to give ourselves the flexibility needed to live across all sorts of connected devices.”
Cord Project was founded by former Google Creative Labs employees Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter.