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General Information
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Website	lightbox.com
Blog	blog.lightbox.com
Twitter	@Lightbox
Category	Mobile/Wireless
Employees	7
Founded	11/10
Description	Mobile photo social network

Offices
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London, GBR

People
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Thai Tran

Co-founder

Nilesh Patel

Co-founder

Giles Peyton-Nicoll

Creative Director & Product Designer

Funding
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TOTAL	$1.2M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL	$1.2M
Seed, 2/11 Index Ventures Accel Partners SV Angel 500 Startups Beth Ellyn McClendon Brian McClendon Charlie Oppenheimer Michael Herf Pasha Sadri Shishir Mehrotra Tommy Ahlers	$1.2M

Tags
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mobile-apps, android, photo-sharing, social-networks, cloud-hosting

Lightbox
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Lightbox develops consumer mobile apps, initially focusing on pushing the envelope for user experience on the Android platform.

Their first product is Lightbox Photos which replaces the Android camera app. It syncs the photos on your phone with your social networks and provides cloud hosting of your photos on Lightbox.com.

Lightbox’s team was acqui-hired by Facebook.

Milestones
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Lightbox added Giles Peyton-Nicoll as Creative Director & Product Designer.

Posted 1/18/12 at 2:31am
Lightbox added Nilesh Patel as Co-founder.

Posted 3/17/11 at 10:06am
Lightbox added Thai Tran as Co-founder.

Posted 3/17/11 at 10:06am
Lightbox received $1.2M in Seed funding. (2/1/11)

Posted 3/17/11 at 10:06am via techcrunch.com