Through pitching the company on the online angel investing site AngelList, Ghosal was introduced to Dan Gilbert.

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They can point angel investors and VCs to their online profiles, apply for funding and even close deals from their computers.

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Relay has already managed one feat: to make believers out of recalcitrant angel investors and VCs who for years treated the online grocery business as radioactive.

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