Cloud Paper
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle
- Sectors
- Consumer goods, Sustainability, DTC
- Stage
- Seed
- Total raised
- $7.2M SEC Form D filings Total of this company's SEC Form D filings
- Last round
- $4M · Nov 2021 SEC Form D
Amazon defies gravity, Microsoft's biggest challenge, and one startup's quest to wipe out deforestation
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon's latest results demonstrated its extraordinary flexibility and ability to overcome challenges in the broader economy using the built-in safeguards in its business, most notably the Amazon Web Services cash machine. Amazon spent an extra $4 billion to keep its business running smoothly despite a clogged economy. Plus, Microsoft hires an Amazon veteran to take on "one of the greatest challenges of our time," and Seattle startup Cloud Paper raises $5 million in new funding for its environmentally friendly, tree-free toilet paper. With Todd Bishop and John Cook; Edited by Curt Milton; theme music…
Cloud Paper Raises $5M for Bamboo, Tree-Free Toilet Paper Backed by Bezos Expeditions, TIME Ventures and Celebrity Investors
Seattle startup Cloud Paper, which makes tree-free bamboo toilet paper and paper towels to reduce deforestation, raised $5 million from investors including Bezos Expeditions, TIME Ventures, Jeff Wilke, Ashton Kutcher and other high-profile backers.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon and others invest $80M in Turntide to commercialize switched-reluctance Smart Motor System
Turntide Technologies raised $80 million in a funding round led by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, bringing its total funding to $180 million to scale its Smart Motor System based on switched reluctance motor technology. Investors include the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Robert Downey Jr.’s Footprint Coalition Ventures and several venture firms, backing the company’s effort to improve motor efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
Robert Downey Jr.’s Footprint Coalition Ventures backs Seattle’s Cloud Paper as it launches two sustainability-focused funds
Actor Robert Downey Jr. launched two venture funds under Footprint Coalition Ventures focused on sustainable technology and is backing Seattle startup Cloud Paper, a tree-free toilet paper maker. The funds, led by Jonathan Schulhof and Steve Levin, will invest in early- and late-stage companies across sustainability, food and agtech, materials, energy, transportation, education, media and environmental solutions.
Cloud Paper raises $3M seed led by Greycroft with Mark Cuban, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary investing
Seattle startup Cloud Paper, which makes tree-free bamboo toilet paper shipped direct to consumers, raised $3 million in a seed round led by Greycroft and backed by investors including Mark Cuban, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary. The year-and-a-half-old company says signups jumped 800% amid the pandemic and highlights sustainability claims such as plastic-free packaging and over 1 million pounds of carbon saved or offset.
Cloud Paper sees 600% subscriber surge during COVID-19 run and pledges 10,000 bamboo toilet-paper rolls to Food Lifeline
Seattle startup Cloud Paper, which makes tree-free bamboo toilet paper, has seen a 600% jump in subscribers amid the COVID-19 run on toilet paper and has pledged 10,000 rolls to Food Lifeline to help those in need.
