DailyBooth is a social communication platform that connects people to their friends in real time using pictures and status updates. Its web and mobile applications encourage users to snap photos with front-facing cameras, targeting a youth audience that prefers sharing pictures over text or video. The platform hosts approximately 14 million photos ("booths") and more than 47 million comments. The company plans to use new financing to accelerate distribution and audience-acquisition efforts and to develop the DailyBooth platform and mobile applications. Hiring world-class technical talent is a stated top priority to support scaling and ongoing innovation. DailyBooth emphasizes the front-facing camera experience as a driver of mobile photo publishing across iPhone, Android and tablet devices. DailyBooth, launched in February 2009 and YC-funded, is a real-time photo-blogging site where users post webcam-shot photos as short-form updates. Users treat the service like Twitter but with photos, driving strong viral adoption. The site reports about six million monthly unique visitors and monthly user growth of roughly 35%. Its core audience skews 15–25-year-old women and is concentrated in the U.S., UK and Canada. The founders plan to use new capital to scale the service first and consider monetization later. Potential monetization directions mentioned include media-based businesses, premium offerings and offline distribution such as photo-printing.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2011