Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the young Harvard students who famously fought over the rights to Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, led BitInstant’s most recent seed funding round of roughly $1.5 million.
“The investment was closed this past fall, but the Winklevosses are just now publicly announcing it in the lead-up to the Bitcoin Foundation’s 2013 Conference being held in Silicon Valley this weekend,” according to TechCrunch.
The New York-based startup is an online platform for buying and selling Bitcoins, a currency that the Winklevoss twins own roughly one percent of, the report says.