TechCrunch March 31, 2014
Video chat marketplace LiveNinja, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant, has raised an additional $500,000 in new funding, the company is announcing today. The news, which is being announced onstage at The Atlantic’s Startup City Miami event this afternoon, arrives alongside the official launch of the company’s business marketplace, called Katana. The funding comes from local, undisclosed angel investors and brings the company’s total raise to over a million.
Previously, LiveNinja had offered a consumer-focused video chat marketplace for service providers and other experts that grew to over 3,000 live experts to date. The company is preparing to relaunch that side of its business in the months ahead with a new, mobile-optimized website.
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