Surf Air Raises Funding
Summary
Surf Air, a Los Angeles-based membership-based airline, has raised a funding of undisclosed amount.Backers include Anthem Venture Partners, NEA, Jared Leto, Mike Walsh, TriplePoint Capital, Siemer Ventures, Baroda Ventures, Gilad Elbaz and Eytan Elbaz, Rick Caruso, and Jeffrey Stibel.The company, which launched from MuckerLab, a mentorship driven accelerator program, intends to use the funding to launch a membership-based private air service in the late summer of 2012.Led by CEO and Founder Wade Eyerly, Surf Air is now accepting wait list member applications (at SurfAir.com) for its first launch market servicing Palo Alto, Monterey, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, as well as for its subsequent launch markets around the U.S. FinSMEs 07/06/2012