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		hko on July 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud Braintree is not a great example of a company that "didn't take VC." According to Crunchbase they raised a $34 million series A round and a $35 million series B round. BigCommerce also raised a $15 million series A round and a $20 million series B round.

lbarrow on July 23, 2013 [–]

The article about us was written in March of 2011, before we accepted funding. We were bootstrapped for 4 years.

ryan-allen on July 23, 2013 | [–]

Yes, correct, people keep making this mistake. 37s only accidentally featured Shopify who took seed money, but they corrected it and removed them from the roll once it was pointed out.

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