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Re:Lightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain T... by sk55 on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:38AM (#12098964)
https://medium.com/mit-media-lab-digital-currency-initiative...

"Together, we’ve raised $900,000. Donors include companies (BitFury, Bitmain, Chain, Circle and Nasdaq) and individuals (Jim Breyer, Jim Pallotta, Jeff Tarrant, Reid Hoffman and Fred Wilson)...while the funds will be limited to support Bitcoin protocol development, the donors do not have any influence over the developers."

Re:Lightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain T... by petertodd on Saturday July 16, 2016 @01:26AM (#12105346)
Ah good, they finally published part of the list (I was discussing that with them in early march in person at MIT).

That said, I believe that list is incomplete.