Venga, a US-based guest management system for restaurants, has raised an undisclosed amount in its series A round from a consortium including BR Venture Fund, the student-run university venturing fund at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management.
The company’s regulatory filing showed in September it had raised $846,000 of a planned $2.2m round.
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