Business View Magazine | March 2018

14 Z enBusiness officially launched,recently,with a $4.5million round of venture capital funding.Led byRoss Buhrdorf,the founding CTO of HomeAway(ac- quired byExpedia for $3.9 billion),ZenBusinessmakes it free for anyone to start a business as an LLCor Corporation and makes it easyand affordable tomanage it year-round.Small business owners and entrepreneurs gain unprecedented sup- port and peace of mind that theyaremeeting all legal require- ments while eliminating the bureaucraticpaperworkassociated with creating andmaintaining a business. Byerasing the barriers associatedwith establishing andmaintain- ing a small business today,ZenBusiness stands to have unprecedented impact onAmericans.The companyaims to help start 1million small businesses by 2023,with conservative datamodels showing this will result in an excess of 2.5mil- lion newjobs andwell over $100 billion in income for employees and their families. “ZenBusiness democratizes entrepreneurship bymaking it easy to create,maintain, andmanage an LLCor other corporate entity,”said Buhrdorf.“We’ve combined a disruptive platformwith services and fair pricing tomake sure everyindivid- ual and small business owner has the ongoing resources and protection theyneed to turn their business dreams and ideas into reality.Our goal is clear: 1million newbusinesses in the next 5years that will trans- late intomillions of jobs for all the employees of our customers and their families.” Lerer Hippeau led this $4.5million seed round of fundingwith other leading tech- nologyventure capital firms including Greycroft,SlowVentures,Revolution’s OPENING LINES ZENBUSINESS RAISES $4.5 MILLION TO HELP LAUNCH ONE MILLION NEW BUSINESSES BY 2023