Right after splitting with Kanye West, British audio startup Kano asks for funding

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Kano, which sells hardware targeted at musicians and creatives, is launching a new equity financial commitment spherical that is open to the general public following reducing ties with controversial rapper Kanye West.
West, whose authorized name is Ye, collaborated with Kano on the startup’s Stem Participant audio product and at a single position had provided to purchase the company for $80 million, CEO Alex Klein advised CNBC.
After a dispute above phrases, and a sequence of antisemitic outbursts from Ye, Kano walked absent from the deal and in January finished its commercial arrangement with Ye for superior.
Klein is hoping to glance past the ordeal, and is arranging to use the funding to make investments in the enhancement of a new product or service, the Stem Headphones.

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