Jan 23, 2013

Social Network Platform, Revolver Raises 50M Yen / Cnet Japan

Revolver announced 50 million yen of fundraising from Suneight Investment by allocation of new shares. It plans to use the capital to develop digital contents selling and social commerce functions.

Revolver is an OEM service for entertainment industry managing artists or talents or fashion industry managing brands. It allows to run Pinterest-like photo sharing community with their own domain and enables to connect with other social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Ameblo. ...

Cnet Japan 1/21/2013 [jp]

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  • There appears many social networking or photo sharing services recently, but it is not easy to monetize even though it succeeds to develop quite large user base. However, Revolver focuses on OEM to celebrities or brands, which would be much easier to make money by selling goods or even digital contents. Also, partnering with celebs is a robust strategy to gain traction for social networking service proven by Ameblo or Twitter.  
  • http://rvlvr.co/

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