East Williamsburg’s Voodoo Manufacturing plans to build a new factory and bolster its management team after raising $1.4 million in seed funding from KPBC Edge and angel investors including David Karp, the CEO of Tumblr.

“We realized there was a pretty big market not just in hardware and manufacturing but also in the promotional material space and we’ve just continued to grow and decided it was time to really build up a team,” Voodoo cofounder Max Friefeld said by phone Tuesday night.

The company has already begun hiring — adding directors of marketing, sales and manufacturing.

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