Snappr raises $2M to grow its on-demand photography service
Summary
Snappr, the on-demand photography service that was part of YCs Winter 17 batch, has closed $2M in seed funding. Investors include Airtree Ventures (the largest VC fund in Australia, where Snappr was founded), Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps and Justin Waldron, co-founder of Zynga.As a refresher, Snappr is a marketplace for people looking to book a photographer for a photo shoot. These low price points mean that people are booking photographers for occasions they would have never previously thought to hire a professional like a birthday party or holiday gathering.In todays Instagram-first world, good photos are more important than ever. And like it or not, for some people a big part of spending money on fancy meals and experiences is the chance to share it with their social networks. But the startup plans to use this new funding to fuel its U.S expansion starting with San Diego, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles in the next 60 days, and the East Coast soon after.So far the most popular booking (theyve had around 5,000 so far) is a two or three hour shoot, with the most popular events being either internal company events and family birthday parties.