EyeEm Raises $6M in Funding
Summary
The company intends to use the funds to expand globally and build a mobile photography marketplace for smartphones.Founded in August 2011 by CEO Florian Meissner, Lorenz Aschoff, Ramzi Rizk and Gen Sadakane, EyeEm is a community and marketplace for mobile photographers who want to capture, enhance, share and discover images in a creative environment.The EyeEm marketplace allows brands, agencies and small businesses to find crowd-sourced mobile stock images of places, people and environments.Brands such as Lufthansa, Redbull and Vice Magazine have already set up missions to crowd source new images for their social marketing campaigns.The company also provides smart tagging and data enrichment technology that is designed to help photographers and clients find content through a search interface.