Overview

On December 9, 2016, Israeli startup Life On Air Inc. has raised $52 million for its live video chat app Houseparty. The financing round was led by Sequoia Capital with the participation of previous investors Aleph VC, Comcast Ventures and Greylock Partners. The company has raised $70 million to date and the “Wall Street Journal” reports that the venture capital funds were competing to invest in the latest financing round.

Houseparty is an immensely popular app, launched in early 2016, which allows large groups to participate in live chat if they are members in the chat group. Thus participants can know exactly who they are chatting with. Houseparty has been one of the most downloaded apps this year from Apple’s app store. This is a second app for Life on Air, whose first product was live-streaming smartphone video app Meerkat, which failed after being frozen out by Twitter.

About Houseparty 

Houseparty formely known as Life On Air’s mission is to connect people in the most human way possible while physically apart.

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You can find more information about Life on Air’s announcement on Globes.co.

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