The LiveShare application, originally developed to let users browse and share photos from live events, now caters to users with more private photo sharing interests.
The new LiveShare experience combines aspects from hot mobile group apps -- à la GroupMe or Fast Society -- with those from trendy mobile photo sharing apps such as Path and Instagram. Users can create a private group, or "stream" as it's called, for their own events and add friends and family from Facebook to help contribute to the stream.
Cooliris, a visual-browsing startup best known for a browser add-on that turns photos and videos into a 3D wall, is also announcing a $9.6 million Series C round in conjunction with Monday's app release. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufiled & Byers, T-Venture, DAG Ventures, and The Westly Group have all re-upped to help Cooliris grow and monetize against its user base.
“With over 35 million downloads of our iconic Cooliris 3D Wall, we’ve established a good beachhead in media browsing, and now with our newest release of LiveShare we are transforming the group media sharing experience,” says Cooliris co-founder and CEO Soujanya Bhumkar.