Snappr

History

2020: Attraction of $10 million investments

At the beginning of October, 2020 the Snappr company attracted $10 million within series A to further development of a marketplace of visual content. Among investors there was also Russian AltaIR Capital. The round was headed by Basis Set Ventures with the assistance of YesVC and Y Combinator.

As reported on the startup website, for only $89 Snappr allows the user to find and order the photographer on demand with the two-hour notification. The company cooperates with thousands of photographers in 200 megalopolises, and the application programming interface allows the companies to reserve photoshoots and to manage file resources on the Snappr platform.

The Russian AltaIR Capital invested in a marketplace of visual content of Snappr, it attracted $10 million

The founder and the CEO of a startup of Snappr Matt Schiller reported that thanks to new charges the company received in total $13 million. The received means will be used for achievement of three purposes: creation of offers for large business and the enterprises, introduction of new features, such as shooting by 360 degrees, virtual rounds and video filming, and entry into the new markets. Besides, the company intends to invest means in product development and updating of design.

The charm of our platform is that we provide to photographers a permanent flow of work, and new and interesting, - Schiller noted. - With some corporate clients we work at hundreds of the markets at the same time, and any photographer will not be able to perform such work alone.

Despite a global pandemic, a startup actively develops. Special demand growth is noted from business clients who prefer to run all business via the Internet. The staff of the company already totals 60 employees, and Schiller reported that Snappr is ready to expansion. According to him, Snappr already use 53.2% of corporations from the list of Fortune 500, and photographers on the platform took pictures of the menu for 12% of restaurants of the USA.^[1]

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