The startup helps Shopify brands sell subs by managing and scheduling payments as well as anything consumer-facing around the process, such as building a customer portal to manage subscriptions and SMS subscription management, among other things. Presently, Skio has five employees but is planning to use its new capital toward product development and to “hire aggressively for world-class software engineers.”“We’re in a position to give significant equity to the right folks since I started this solo,” he said.