US-based mobile address book developer Everyme secured $1.5m in financing yesterday frominternet company Tencent, venture capital firms Andreessen-Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Crunchfund, the fund set up by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, .
EveryMe was one of 63 companies to receive funding from startup accelerator Y Combinator in August. Y Combinator invests a small amount of money in a large number of companies twice a year, then works with them to organise their pitch to investors at Y Combinator’s Demo Day.
EveryMe’s address book system will incorporate phone numbers stored on a users mobile with information from social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.
TechCrunch has reported that EveryMe is set to be released as an app in November. In the meantime EveryMe is allowing users to reserve their usernames on its website