Claim: In 2012, Art Agrawal and Dongyi Liao founded YourMechanic, and in September of the same year, was able to raise $1.8 million in seed funding from venture firms and investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (the ones that invested $80 million in 45 start-ups including Twitter), and also won the TechCrunch Battlefield Disrupt San Francisco competition.
Evidence: In 2012, Art Agrawal (Co-founder) and Dongyi Liao (CTO) founded YourMechanic. In September 2012, the company raised $1.8 million in seed funding from venture firms and investors including Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Crunch Fund, Promus Ventures, Greylock Partners, DFJ, Lerer Ventures, PG Ventures, Ashton Kutcher, Jawed Karim, Dave Gilboa, Justin Waldron, Joshua Schachter, Hector Hulian, Paige Craig, Mark Friedgan, Alex Goldstein, Sam Angus, Kevin Freedman, Jeremy Wenokur and Rob Wang. Separately, and together, they invested $80 million in 45 start-ups including Twitter. In September 2012, the company won the TechCrunch Battlefield Disrupt San Francisco competition against other finalists Saya, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Zumper, Gyft and Expert Labs.