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Socialcam Raises Funding From 46 Angel Investors
Socialcam is an iPhone app that spun off of video sharing website Justin.tv last year as part of Y Combinators winter 2012 class. Socialcam has raised seed funding from 46 well known angel investors. Socialcam’s fiercest competitor is Viddy. They have been fighting back and forth as the top Photo & Video app recently. Socialcam has reportedly surpassed the 20 million user mark. Below is a list of all of the investors involved as compiled by TechCrunch.
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Categories Alexis Ohanian, Allison Streuter, Andreessen Horowitz, Ari Emmanuel, Ashton Kutcher, Atom Factory, Brian Chesky, Chris Hollod, CrunchPad Inc., Emmett Shear, Erik Moore, Felix Shpilman, Garry Tan, Guy Oseary, Harj Taggar, Jason Johnson, Jason Lublin, Jeff Kapel, Jessica Livingston, Jonathan Abrams, Justin Caldbeck, Justin Kan, Kyle Vogt, Laurene Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, Matt Ocko, Michael Abrams, Michael Levit, Michael Rapino, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Ram Shiram, Ronny Conway, Shane Battier, Shervin Pishevar, Socialcam, Stacey Rubin, Stewart Alsop, SV Angel, Tim Draper, Trajan Langdon, Troy Carter, Yuri Milner, Zachary Bogue
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Y Combinator Raises $8.25 Million
Y Combinator, the successful incubator firm started by Paul Graham has raised $8.25 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit, Aydin Senkut, XG Ventures, and Geoff Ralston. Last year Y Combinator raised $2 million. Y Combinator plans to increase the number of companies that they provide start-up funding to. Since starting in summer 2005, Y Combinator has invested in about 207 startups. [TechCrunch]
Sequoia Capital Invests $2 Million Into Y-Combinator
Paul Graham has made the VCs open their wallets once again. Y-Combinator has raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital and several other angel investors. Up until now, only Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Jessica Livingston, and Trevor Blackwell were the sole investors in Y-Combinator companies.
Through this round of funding, Y-Combinator will open a new investment arm. Y-Combinator will also be able to increase the number of companies that they invest in ever year. They wil go from about 40 companies per year to 60. Y-Combinator invests about $15,000 per startup. Before Y-Combinator invested about $5,000 for 6% equity in the company and provided startups with office space and other resources.
Some of the companies to come out of Y-Combinator include Snipd, heysan!, Weebly, Addmired, Justin.TV, Tipjoy, Songkick, Disqus, Dropbox, Anywhere.FM, Loopt, Scribd, Xobni, Reddit, and Omnisio.
Greg McAdoo of Sequoia led the investment. Some of the angels that joined in the investment include Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit, and Aydin Senkut.
[via VentureBeat]
Categories Aydin Senkut, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator
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