Mobile Application Developer Yo, who can only send contacts word Yo, got an additional $ 1.5 million investment. In the new round included eight investors, including the creator of Tencent, Mashable founder Pete Cashmore and fund Betaworks.
Author is unusual messenger Israeli Or Arbel, who, according to him, has spent to develop a program of 8 hours. In March this year, he opened an office in Silicon Valley and has received the first investment of $ 1 million . goals pursued investors to invest in projects such money is unknown.
For the same inexplicably app quickly became popular and pretend to be another meme.Developer himself says that short word "yo" can express many emotions. "You usually know what it means" yo "depending on the situation and the one who sent you a message", - he says.
After the installation, you need to choose a user name, then you can invite contacts from your address book to install the program or send a message to those who already use it. The word "yo" can be sent to several people, and block specified senders.
Since its launch in April, the number of downloads Yo has grown to more than 2 million co-founder of a startup Hogeg Moshe says that users send more than 2 million "yo" in the day.Now the developer is preparing a new version of the application, which will be released before the end of the month.
It is noteworthy that the original moderators App Store does not want to miss Yo the store because they thought that it was not finished.