Italic

$36.9Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
$26.9Mlatest round · Venture round · Mar 2021 · 5 yr ago
5backers · Canaan Partners, Comcast Ventures
2team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year

Overview

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Funding and backers

Total raised
$36.9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$26.9M
Venture round · Mar 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
2
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year
Backers
5
Canaan Partners, Comcast Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
67 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 29, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $26.9M · SEC Form D Dec 6, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $10M · SEC Form D 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2021 $26.9M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2018 $10M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity ITALIC, INC. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jeremy CaiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Annie ChenExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Financials

Total raised
$36.9M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $26.9M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $10M Details

People

Jeremy Cai
Executive Officer, Director
Annie Chen
Executive Officer
Ludwig Ensthaler
Director
Daniel Gulati
Director
Don Stalter
Director
Byron Ling
Director
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Shared investors5
25 portfolio companies: Basis Theory, Assured, Atlas Card and 22 more
Work LifeVia a fund
32 portfolio companies: Flamingo Estate, Tanner Fletcher, Catherine Bui and 29 more
50 portfolio companies: Nous 2026 (, Grand Hood, cherryz.com and 47 more
Canaan PartnersVia a fund
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News

News verge 1 year ago
Microsoftreleases a bold new update for Notepad
Microsoft is adding text formatting support to Notepad. You'll be able to use bold and italic options, alongside hyperlinks and Markdown support.
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News Dinamo Typefaces 1 year ago
Whitney Mallett: When Kylie Minogue Was a Font
Whitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the perspective of a new typeface.
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News Adrian Roselli 1 year ago
Don't Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media
I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don't want you to use it. I embedded the post, but you can go to it directly…
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News 48 hills 4 years ago
Conservative YIMBYs just took over SF's biggest lifestyle site. Its ex-editor tells us what that means
GrowSF controls The Bold Italic. Former head Matt Charnock, now of Underscore, dishes on the local media impact
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News WWD 5 years ago
Online Marketplace Italic Unlocks Members-Only Platform for Shoppers
The platform will be unlocked to help meet surging demand, according to Italic.
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News Harper 5 years ago
This Members-Only Store Is the Secret to Perfect Gifts
Italic is a members-only site for buying luxury goods at-cost. It
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Los Angeles United States
HQ