Uppidy Raised $300,000 for Messaging App
Columbia, Md. - Uppidy, a virtual and mobile startup that markets the Uppidy messaging app for iPhones, Androids and Blackberry smartphones has raised $300,000 in equity financing according to its founder Joshua Konowe. Uppidy which was launched just 6 months ago has filed its plan on raising 300k of seed funding this week according to SEC filing and just a couple of days was able to raised 300k of seed funding.
The funding came from Fortify.Vc of the Washington area, Paul Silber of Blu Ventures of Northern Virginia, and an angel investor group from Silicon Valley. According to its founder Joshua Konowe, the company will use the money to add more workforce on the tech team and provide more game mechanics features to booster the social growth. It is also worth taking note that Uppidy has spend $0 dollars in marketing yet they were able to gather more than a thousand subscriber.
Uppidy services includes storing, searching and sharing text messages with hash tags which are commonly seen and used in Twitter. With hash tags in text messaging, users can create personal group and social groups sharing the same interests.
You can visit Uppidy’s live site for more information.
