A startup that's been called "a Kickstarter for the homeless," HandUp Pbc, has raised $850,000 in seed funding, co-founder and Chief Executive Rose Broome told Venture Capital Dispatch.

The funding came from Version One Ventures, Jason Calacanis' Launch Fund, SV Angel, individual angel investors including Marc Benioff, Eric Ries and Golden Seeds' Managing Director Kathy Salmanowitz, and the incubators Tumml, 1776 and Urban.us.

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