Hood, a Pseudonymous Social Network Attains Top 10 Position in the App Store as the Episode Goes Live on Shark Tank India

The social network aims to scale the platform further, invest in tech and make Hood a household name with the latest investment

Hood, a pseudonymous social network, has received funding of Rs 1.2 crore from the founders of Lenskart and boAt — Peeyush Bansal and Aman Gupta — on the 40th episode of Shark Tank India Season 2.

Launched in July 2022, Hood enables users to share their thoughts, ask questions, and discuss and debate on a range of topics under a pseudonym. The platform offers a safe space for users to express themselves without the fear of being judged.

The co-founders of Hood — Jasveer Singh, Abhishek Asthana, and Deepak Kumar – appeared on Shark Tank India with the aim of introducing Hood to people across the country because of the show’s pan-India reach.

Co-Founder and CEO - Jasveer Singh

Co-founder and CEO of Hood, Jasveer Singh, said, “Shark tank has pan-India level reach, which is a step further for us in becoming a household name. Additionally, getting investors like Peeyush and Aman will be a great help in gaining a deep understanding of technology. Lastly, our appearance on Shark Tank will help us build brand credibility. We want to make Hood a household name globally."

With plans to scale, the platform will be using the investment amount for investing in technology, hiring tech leaders, and undertaking content moderation. The platform will also introduce new features around direct messaging and ask me anything, among others. The founders want to build Hood to be the name associated with pseudonymity.

So far, the company has raised $3.2 million in a seed round from 20+ unicorn founders and some of the prominent names are Kunal Shah, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Ashish Hemrajani, Ashneer Grover, Gaurav Gupta, and multiple other angel investors. The platform was launched in the US market as well. Its immediate goal remains to gain millions of users and launch in other global markets.

Token Powered Social Platform Taki Raises $3.45 Mn in Seed Funding By CoinDCX, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Ventures and Others

• Taki is incubated at SuperLayer, a leading Web3 venture studio
• 11 investors have come on-board for this funding investment
• The token-based social networking platform for content creators will utilise the capital for hiring and expansion

Taki, a global token-powered social network, slated to launch in India next month, has raised $3.45M through 11 marquee global investors. The round saw participation from key crypto exchanges and investors like CoinDCX, Coinbase Ventures, FTX, OKX Blockdream Ventures, Solana Ventures, Formless Capital, Gemini Frontier Fund, Luno Expeditions, Huobi Ventures, Kraken Ventures, and Roka Works, reflecting their confidence in the platform and unique proposition that Taki team brings as it plans to enter India.

With this investment, Taki plans to accelerate its product, and technological development and overdrive by directing the funds towards crucial operations such as proactive team building, hiring talent across functions and marketing activities. The company will also expand its presence in other key markets gradually post its India launch and invest in strengthening its creators’ network. These funds will further be extended towards product designing, engineering, Go-To-Market activities, General and Administrative (legal, finance), partnerships, community building and more.

Commenting on the announcement, Sakina Arsiwala, Co-Founder, Taki said “Taki is a work of passion and an amalgamation of vision to bring a new dimension and meaning for social content consumption. We are glad that our investors see a great scope for expanding personal economy space with the power of crypto tokens. Taki is designed to be a secure, safe and tech superior product that enables social enthusiasts to consume, invest, share, transact and build a token-based content portfolio. Taki is the perfect platform for the creators, who wish to increase their network and enable growth for their fan-base too. The burgeoning creators’ economy is making more meaningful contributions towards the businesses at large across the global markets, and are shaping the way content is getting monetised.”

Taki is built with an “EngageToEarn" product design and integrates user coins with social media features to incentivize and reward activities that benefit the Taki community. Incubated at SuperLayer, Taki received product design advice and networking support prior to the project’s independent spin-out and launch. Taki is built on the Solana Blockchain - with support from the Solana Foundation - which allows Taki to provide fast and inexpensive transactions with low environmental impact, and makes Taki more accessible to communities at a global scale. To make the platform more inclusive to established and emerging communities, Taki has set up a 2.5 million USD creator fund to bring content creators to Taki who can drive a high level of awareness and enhance overall user engagement for the platform.

The platform is currently invite-only, but users can sign up on the waitlist with public access coming soon and follow the project on Twitter. Taki brings a unique engagement platform for creators, users, and crypto enthusiasts, who can earn a daily income by simply posting content and chatting with others about things that interest them.

Taki becomes the first platform to introduce the concept of user coin ($UCOIN). A user coin is a monetary representation of the personal social network, where a user can buy and sell user coins using a $TAKI token. User coins can generate a new source of income for creators who are traditionally reliant on sponsored content deals. It allows users to control their personal economy with a branded coin that they own.

The platform allows users to earn in two ways, one through the crypto token $TAKI, and the second through individual user coins for every user ($UCOIN). In both ways, a user can earn by creating content that other users enjoy, or even by pursuing a basic level of engagement activities such as commenting on and liking the posts. It also allows existing users to buy a particular creator’s user coins at the initial stages and remain part of that community and enjoy appreciation of token as the community grows—leading to a creation and growth one`s personal economy on the Taki platform.

The community token sale of $TAKI by the TAKI DAO is anticipated in the late April 2022 with the goal to enable broader distribution of $TAKI and promote awareness of the Taki project.

Extending his thoughts, Kevin Chou, Managing Partner at SuperLayer said, “It is heartening to witness such a positive start towards an affirmative beginning. Extending our heartfelt gratitude to all our investors who trusted in our vision and aiding us towards making it a reality. Taki’s journey towards success will always be incomplete without their support.”

About Taki

Taki is a global token-powered social network where everyone can earn a daily income by simply posting content and chatting with others about things that interest them. Users earn $TAKI, a crypto token, by creating content that other users enjoy, and by commenting on and liking posts. Taki also allows users to create their user coin to build their individual economy on the Taki platform.

About SuperLayer

SuperLayer is a community of builders creating transformative Web3 experiences that democratize opportunity and ownership of the internet. SuperLayer is made up of a team of crypto-passionate builders, founders, investors, operators, and product managers who’ve built multiple companies from zero-to-one and beyond. SuperLayer is a partner of the $RLY network, an open, decentralized network powered by its governance token, $RLY. It supports an ecosystem of consumer crypto applications to bring the next 100 million users into crypto.

Taki, a Token Powered Social Network for Content Creators, Fueled by Crypto Token $TAKI, To Soon Launch in India

Taki is incubated at SuperLayer, a leading Web3 venture studio

• Solana Foundation has partnered with Taki and provided a USD 2.5M fund to on-board content creators onto Taki
• Interested users can sign up to join the waitlist and participate in the upcoming community token sale in April

Taki, a global token-powered social network, is all set to launch the platform for users and content creators in India. India takes precedence and priority among other markets that Taki plans to expand into this year. The platform is currently invite-only, but users can sign up on the waitlist with public access coming soon. Taki brings a unique engagement platform for creators, users, and crypto enthusiasts, who can earn a daily income by simply posting content and chatting with others about things that interest them.

Users on the platform earn $TAKI, a crypto token, by creating content that other users enjoy, and by commenting on and liking posts. Taki also allows users to create their own user coin to build their own personal economy on the Taki platform. Taki aims to reward users who are spending their time every day on the internet to get entertained and engage socially. Engaging over the content themes and common passions, the users of Taki now have the opportunity for being economically rewarded with every single post exchanged, shared, or liked either by fans or the creators.

The platform allows users to earn in two ways, one through the crypto token $TAKI, and the second through individual user coins for every user ($UCOIN). In both ways, a user can earn by creating content that other users enjoy, or even by pursuing a basic level of engagement activities such as commenting on and liking the posts.

Taki becomes the first platform to introduce the concept of user coin ($UCOIN). A user coin is a monetary representation of the personal social network, where a user can buy and sell user coins using a $TAKI token. User coins can generate a new source of income for creators who are traditionally reliant on sponsored content deals. It allows users to control their personal economy with a branded coin that they own.

Taki introduces a multi-tiered crypto-economy design by allowing users to freely trade their user coins with others on Taki. It also allows existing users to buy a particular creator’s user coins at the initial stages and remain part of that creator’s economy while their community and token economy grows.

Taki is built with an “Engage2Earn" product design and integrates user coins with social media features to incentivize and reward activities that benefit the Taki community. Incubated at SuperLayer, Taki received product design advice and networking support prior to the project’s independent spin-out and launch. Taki is built on the Solana Blockchain which allows Taki to provide fast and inexpensive transactions with low environmental impact. Solana has partnered with Taki to set up a 2.5 million USD creator fund to bring content creators to Taki who can drive a high level of awareness and enhance overall user engagement for the platform.

Commenting on the pre-launch phase, Sakina Arsiwala, Co-Founder, Taki said “Taki is a work of passion and an amalgamation of vision to bring a new dimension and meaning for social content consumption. Our vision is to enable liberalization in personal economy space with the power of crypto tokens. Taki is designed to be a secure, safe and tech superior product that enables social enthusiasts to consume, invest, share, transact and build a token-based content portfolio.”

Speaking on creating economic success for the content creators in cryptocurrency, she said, “India is a hub for creative talent, and has emerged as one of the biggest adopters of cryptocurrency in comparison to the other countries. The growth of the Indian engagement economy is rooted in the success and the immense reach of content creators. Content creators are building communities, and need to evolve in their journey along with their fans. More than just enabling social popularity on the platform, Taki presents an economically rewarding opportunity for creators and their fans through cryptocurrency.”The community token sale of $TAKI by the TAKI DAO is anticipated in April 2022 with the goal to enable broader distribution of $TAKI and promote awareness of the Taki project.

Towards Taki India launch, Kevin Chou, Managing Partner at SuperLayer said, “We are extremely excited about Taki as an emerging token-powered platform. We believe Taki is going to be a first of its kind to bridge the gap between normal netizens and Web3 experience at large. India has the real potential to nurture and grow the cryptocurrency ecosystem for the entire world.” 

About Taki

Taki is a global token-powered social network where everyone can earn a daily income by simply posting content and chatting with others about things that interest them. Users earn $TAKI, a crypto token, by creating content that other users enjoy, and by commenting on and liking posts. Taki also allows users to create their user coin to build their individual economy on the Taki platform.

About SuperLayer

SuperLayer is a community of builders creating transformative Web3 experiences that democratize opportunity and ownership of the internet. SuperLayer is made up of a team of crypto-passionate builders, founders, investors, operators, and product managers who’ve built multiple companies from zero-to-one and beyond. SuperLayer is a partner of the $RLY network, an open, decentralized network powered by its governance token, $RLY. It supports an ecosystem of consumer crypto applications to bring the next 100 million users into crypto.

Qlan: the Gamers’ Exclusive Social Network Platform Launched with 50,000 Pre-registration on the Google Play Store

An exclusive campaign initiates #JointheQlan to encourage the gaming & esports community to meet, connect and get discovered through this App

Adding an edge to the esports segment, Qlan, an interactive social networking app dedicated for gamers, announced their successful launch on Google Play Store with 50,000 pre-registrations on Thursday. The exclusive platform presents a whole new approach to connect and engage with the gaming and esports community with a vision of creating a robust and sustainable ecosystem.

The platform is developed for gamers, gaming professionals, squads, orgs, tournament organizers, content creators and other stakeholders in the industry to build, find and exchange value to further their growth. The brainchild of Sagar Nair, co-founder and CEO, and Navin Talreja, co-founder and CBO, Qlan, envision the growth of the esports industry while being one of the enablers in the process.

“It is a surreal feeling to successfully launch Qlan. Gaming and esports is our passion and we understand the massive potential that this segment has. While in the existing social setup, gamers and the esports ecosystem were unable to address various issues like making the right connections, proper recognition for their in-game talent, a structured system for players and skilled individuals to showcase their skills, creating and sharing content in one designated gaming only platform. The idea is to unite the existing fragmented communities and facilitate value exchange amongst them. These lacunas in the existing social system obstructed the right talent from getting tapped. And that is what prompted Qlan’s inception, it will address existing grassroot problems that the gaming ecosystem has been facing in the social space all this while,” Sagar Nair, Co-founder and CEO of Qlan said after the launch of the App.

It is a genre-specific one stop networking app with some of the key features like:

1. Create custom solo, squad & org profiles
2. Showcase gaming skills by syncing in-game statistics
3. Share gaming & esports content with an option to monetise early
4. Promote esports tournaments, brands & IPs to a targeted audience
5. Access AI-enabled gamer matchmaking for verified connections

This AI-based networking app offers the stakeholders in the business and the thriving esports community to meet, communicate and get discovered. Providing optimum opportunities to new prospects while augmenting the industry further.

“We are eagerly looking forward to how our early users respond to Qlan. After months of research and gathering insights by conducting various pro-to type surveys and trials we were able to understand the existing, unattended problems, and that motivated us to come up with the solution—QLAN. Qlan is built with a focused vision on uniting the key stakeholders in the industry to build, find and exchange value to bolster their own communities and business. We believe it would prove to be an industry game changer. Whether you’re looking to go pro, find your esports squad, seek professional opportunities in the industry, in Qlan you have a trusted enabler for anything you want to achieve in the gaming and esports space” said Navin Talreja, Co-founder and CBO after the launch.

With the successful app launch, Qlan envisions becoming the most trusted and secured platform for the gaming and esports community. The app is currently accessible to android users and it plans to soon launch the app for iOS users as well.

Social Handles

Link to download the App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qlan
Website: www.qlan.gg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qlan/
Instagram: @qlan.gg

ABOUT QLAN:

Qlan: The Gamers’ Social Network, is an exclusive platform designed to unify and engage gamers and esports enthusiasts to build a credible community.

Established in the year 2021, Qlan is a mobile networking platform dedicated exclusively for the esports/gaming community who can seamlessly connect with each other and facilitate the creation of an industry complementing ecosystem. The genre-specific platform allows users to create custom profiles, sync their game statistics, connect and communicate with other gamers, share gaming content, create Org and Squad profiles and more.

We wanted to address the problems of this segment and solve them in a seamless manner using the power of tech, the solutions we came up with, organically led us to conceptualize a digital platform with easy to use, problem solving features.

Three Indian’s Launch Faceless Chat the World’s First App That Turns Facebook or WhatsApp Into an Anonymous Social Network

Many wonder what others may really think of them, or their opinions or if someone likes us. The new Faceless Chat app allows these questions to be answered in a safe, anonymous, and fun away, among many other possibilities

Being able to socialize anonymously or having the option to find out what friends may really think about a question, opinion or a post without having to expose their identities are options that many social networking enthusiasts find incredibly interesting. Now, thanks to the new Android app Faceless Chat both of these options and much more are possible. Faceless Chat works with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snap Chat to deliver links to anonymous posts, where people can respond with their identity protected. To make things even better as soon as the links expire they are gone forever, without Faceless Chat even having the option to recover them, regardless of the reason. Not surprisingly, these features are making Faceless Chat a popular new social networking choice among a growing number of users who value honesty and being able to stay anonymous.

“Our mission is to create technologies that bring people even more closer using social media. The most common feature in every social network out there is a story. More than 1.6 Billion Stories are uploaded daily on all social networks and we want to make them more interactive, creative and significantly more better,” commented Sulaiman Mmd, Co-Founder and CEO of Faceless Chat.

“That’s what Faceless Chat is offering and it is obviously something that is in big demand. Many people obviously don’t enjoy the idea that their identity is attached to social networking chats and can be recovered forever. We are providing a way around that kind of headache that is ethical, well-designed, easy to use, and fun.”

Faceless Chat take a unique approach to social networking by building its interactions around a simple link, where other social networking apps surround things like photos (for Instagram), disappearing photos (Snapchat), and other more traditional approaches. Since Faceless Chat uses shareable links, it allows users to share anything with just a link, giving them the ability to turn their WhatsApp status or Snapchat stories into interactive things where online friends can have anonymous exchanges with them exploring all kinds of interesting, fun, or eye-opening subjects.

Friends who see the Faceless Chat stories can swipe up and check their posts on a web browser, as well as be able to directly interact with the user anonymously. Popular choices for posts include things like ‘Questions and Answers’, secret crushes, surprising confessions, and much more. Since things are kept anonymous and the posts vanish forever, it encourages honesty, humor, and shock value to all be celebrated.

Many people are pointing towards Faceless Chat to be the future of social networking for its ease of use, for it being able to be incorporated on other popular platforms like WhatsApp and Snapchat, and, most of all, it’s dedication to keeping things completely anonymous.

So far the feedback from users has been incredibly positive across the board, something which is helping the app’s use spread due to all of the enthusiastic user experiences.

The new app is updated regularly for the best possible user experience.

For more information be sure to visit https://facelesschat.me. Download the Googe Play store here.