WeMail, a Mercer Island-based startup, has raised $1 million in funding to change the way people use email on their mobile devices. The company’s app, which bears the same name, is designed to make it easier and faster to correspond over email, especially now that so many people have smartphones in their pocket at all times.
It’s the brainchild of Philip and Gerald Yuen, Y Combinator alumni who have previously sold companies to Amazon and Zynga. The pair received funding from a host of tech luminaries, including Hipmunk co-founder Steve Huffman, and Twitch co-founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear.