I went looking around and could not find any quotes or articles relating to investors. It seems I had actually confused the cointerra "angel investor" article with hashfast. All of this information is starting to run together. I think I'm the one who started that the whole "they had investors" train. And, I was completely incorrect as I could not find one instance where they said they had outside investment.
No, they really said it, several times. Let's look it up later.