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  • Zapier raises $1.2 million seed round, hires first employee

    As Zapier wrapped up its three-month stint in seed accelerator Y Combinator earlier this year, the founders of the Columbia, Mo.-born startup fielded ample advice on how to handle funding. “We heard, ‘Get fundraising done as fast as possible. Don’t worry about it. You want to finish it, and …

  • Columbia, Mo.-born Zapier launches from its new home at Y Combinator

    Zapier, the winner of Startup Weekend Columbia in October, launched today, just weeks after moving to Silicon Valley to join Y Combinator, a program and seed fund for startups. “(It’s an) easy way for non-developers to get integrations between all their SaaS applications,” co-founder Wade Foster said on Monday. In other words, Zapier syncs apps,…