vive, a Hanover, Germany-based mobile video chat community for creatives, explorers and travellers, raised $1.5m in funding.
Backers included:
• Christophe F. Maire (Atlantic Internet, investor in SoundCloud, EyeEm, Tape.tv, Monoqi)
• Dr. Ralph Eric Kunz (Catagonia Capital)
• Ludwig zu Salm (Lunet Entertainment, Investor in Palantir, Skygrid, Evernote)
• Martin Sinner (investor in Simfy, ResearchGate, Refined Labs, mysportbrands, Payango, Scarosso)
• Dr. Markus Englert (Atlantic Capital Partners, investor in tape.tv, gekkoboard, zooppa)
• Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann (World Security Network)
• Hannover Beteiligungs Fond
• Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Niedersachen
Founded in 2012 by Arnd Aschentrup, Matthias Kleimann and Tobias Dickmeis, vive is a membership-only video chat community service. Calls are free for users and conversations last 15 mins on average. vive already has more than 150,000 signups. An optimized iPad version launches this week.
It adopts WebRTC, a new open standard for high-quality P2P video conversations.
The company has offices and community management teams in San Francisco and Berlin.
FinSMEs
08/10/2014