Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin Leads Qwiki’s $8 Million Round
January 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST
TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki has closed its $8 million series A financing, which I first reported a couple weeks ago when it was midway through the round. Now we know the investors, and it is a very interesting group. The largest investor who led the round turns out to be Eduardo Saverin , the early Facebook co-founder who was pushed out of the company but walked away with enough shares to make him a billionaire. Saverin watched Qwiki's demo at Disrupt streamed over the Internet from Singapore, where he now lives. Saverin reached out and met with the founders, and they clicked.