Dance announced raising a new capital investment round from celebrity angel investors.
Dance, a Berlin, Germany-based startup building a bike-subscription business, announced completing a new funding round.
The money was raised from a range of celebrity angel investors from the United States and Germany, including:
- Chance the Rapper, Grammy award-winning musician activist and entrepreneur
- Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, founders of WndrCo; Katzenberg also founded and served as CEO of Dreamworks SKG; Jaswa was the Business Founder and CFO of Dropbox
- Julian Hönig, who spent a decade on Apple's design team as well as Audi and Lamborghini
- Lea-Sophie Cramer, an ecommerce revolutionary that founded feminist lifestyle company Amorelie
- Maisie Williams, actress and World Wildlife Fund global ambassador
- Suneil Setiya and Greg Skinner co-CEOs of Quadrature and trustees of the Quadrature Climate Foundation
- will.i.am, Grammy award-winning artist, philanthropist and entrepreneur
Dance, founded in 2020 by Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss (CEO), Alexander Ljung and Christian Springub, is working for putting together a business based on a subscription for full-service, full-access electric bike. The company is yet to launch its product. It previously raised more than $20 million, from investors including HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and BlueYard.