Blaast

company

About

Blaast is a cloud-based 2G mobile platform offering access to over one hundred apps through one download.

  • 11 - 50

Details

Last Funding Type
Seed
Last Funding Money Raised
$3.70M
Industries
Information Services,Information Technology,Mobile
Founded date
Jun 18, 2010
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active

Blaast is for the next billion people to come online. Believing that these people will mainly log on through their mobile phones, this app is designed to make mobile online usage much more user-friendly and efficient. In order to enhance the experience, Blaast attempts to create a faster, smoother overall online experience on mobile phones.

Through a series of unique distribution partnerships, Blaast is working together with mobile network operators. In effect, this creates a unique subscription based app store offering, one which offers developers recurring revenues in addition to huge subscriber bases.

Blaast is funded by the founding engineers of Skype, Veturi Venture Accelerator and top European and Asian angels. Even in stealth-mode Blaast has garnered significant interest across the globe with articles published on GigaOM, The New York Times and Arctic Startup amongst others.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
1
$3.70M
Blaast has raised a total of $3.70M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 31, 2010 from a Seed round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Dec 31, 2010 Seed $3.70M 1 Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
1
Blaast is funded by 1 investors. Veturi Venture Accelerator are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Veturi Venture Accelerator Seed