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Michael Kong

CEO at Sonic

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Michael Kong is the CEO of the Fantom Foundation.

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Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Contango Contango
Seed $ 45 M $ 4 M
Jul 14, 2022
Request Finance Request Finance
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
Jun 09, 2022

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