February 25, 2008

Tiny Pictures Gets A Big Wad of Cash—$7 Million Series B

Erick Schonfeld

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Mobile startup Tiny Pictures secured a $7.2 million series B financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Mohr Davidow Ventures, which led the A round, also participated. Previously, the company raised a total of $4 million, including seed investments from Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito.

Tiny Pictures operates the mobile photo-sharing service Radar, which lets members comment on each others camera-phone snapshots. Radar serves up 15 million mobile photos a month worldwide. Last November, the company introduced advertising in the form of public photo streams that movie studios and other companies try to get people to pay attention to. Blacked Eyed Peas singer will.i.am recently joined the company’s advisory board.

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Alaska Miller

February 25th, 2008 at 4:16 am

That’s quite a lot of iPhones on the front page today
Yakov

February 25th, 2008 at 4:24 am

This kind of a community is a step towards mobile social networking. Playfon recently bought out a mobile photo and video sharing site http://blog.quintura.com/2008/.....5-million/
AD

February 25th, 2008 at 4:37 am

Just one clarification radar doesn’t provide a mobile application as in a app that sits on the handset. Photos/Videos can be uploaded by sending a MMS.
Spence

February 25th, 2008 at 5:00 am

Typo, Blacked Eyes Peas should be Black Eye Peas.
newbloger

February 25th, 2008 at 5:01 am

the i-phone is great.
http://www. i-guide .ro
JB

February 25th, 2008 at 6:52 am

Let’s see… a name that can be pronounced… vowels where there should be vowels… I approve, it’s money well spent!!
mark

February 25th, 2008 at 7:20 am

It seems that we are witnessing another startup that will contribute to loss of profitability due to increasing competition in the IT industry. There is more and more talking on this topic and some websites, including businesshackers.com say that it might lead to 30-40% drop in ROE/ROA.
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February 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am

That is so coooool.

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John

February 25th, 2008 at 8:19 am

AD, that’s not correct. Radar offers a whole range of mobile apps in addition to their wap and web sites.
Dyde

February 25th, 2008 at 9:27 am

How will this startup make money? Brand advertising? Does anyone above 18 want to view ads on their phones?
iCluck SEO

February 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pm

The ads need to be contextual based upon the pictures present - much like AdSense but more on the level of image recognition. I don’t know how this could go, the better option would be to allow users to tag the separate pictures and then with tagging comes the ability of users to to gain advertisements targeted at the different psychographics of the users

So, mobile contextual advertising based upon a community picture sharing service? Great idea — it just needs to be built upon.
tommus

February 25th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

iRovr.com is way better. Check it out!
AD

February 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

Well John I don’t see exactly where I can download the app.. I am a registered user on radar and as such i like your service
lia

February 26th, 2008 at 7:24 am

good luck with this!
Kevin

February 26th, 2008 at 11:17 am

I just got an iPhone update through iTunes for the iPhone 1.1.4 version

Anyone know about what the features are? Apple’s site says nothing as of Feb. 26 2:25p