Sam Bankman-Fried and his brother Gabriel personally made undisclosed investments in Semafor as part of a $25 million funding round in June last year
Semafor co-founder Ben Smith; Source: Neon Tommy, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, modified by Blockworks
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