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Clubhouse is reportedly in talks to raise funding in a round that values the audio app at $4 billion just a year after it launched.
On Tuesday, founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth spoke with NPR host Guy Raz on Clubhouse about how they built the app.
Scroll down for 9 key takeaways from their conversation.
1. At one year old, Clubhouse has a user base bigger than the population of Pennsylvania.
Clubhouse has crossed 15 million first-time app installs worldwide, including 3.7 million installs in the US, according to the app analytics company SensorTower. If it was a state, Clubhouse would be the fifth largest state by population size, following California, Texas, Florida, and New York.
Blobr, the ‘no-code’ company turning APIs into products, raises €1.2M pre-seed
Blobr, a Paris-based startup operating in the no-code space with tech to make it easier for companies to expose and monetise their existing APIs, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding.
The round is led by pan-European pre-seed and seed investor Seedcamp, with participation from New Wave, Kima and various angel investors. Blobr is also the first company to take investment from New Wave the new European venture capital firm co-founded by Pia d’Iribarne and Jean de la Rochebrochard since the VC confirmed it had closed $56 million in deployable capital from an all-star lineup of investors, including Iliad’s Xavier Niel, Benchmark’s Peter Fenton and Tony Fadell of Apple fame.