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  • Company Type For Profit

Livestar is a mobile app that lets you get recommendations quickly and easily from critics, friends and people with the same taste as you. Currently Livestar provides recommendations for restaurants, movies, music and apps, with more categories coming soon.

Livestar is founded by former Microsoft executive and investor Fritz Lanman, whose

angel investments include Square and Pinterest, and its engineering team is comprised of primarily of former Amazon engineers. It is backed by world class investors in Silicon Valley, Seattle, LA and New York, including: SV Angel, Allen and Co, Betaworks, Paul Buchheit, Mitch Kapor, The Chernin Group, William Morris Endeavor, Hank Vigil, Ray Ozzie, Hadi and Ali Partovi, Matt Mullenweg, Morado Ventures and others.

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2,912 Number of Organizations • $111.6B Total Funding Amount • 2,470 Number of Investors
City of New York Companies that Exited
4,581 Number of Organizations • $343.5B Total Funding Amount • 11,432 Number of Investors
Microsoft Alumni Founded Companies
2,577 Number of Organizations • $69.8B Total Funding Amount • 7,837 Number of Investors
Greater New York Area Companies that Exited
8,073 Number of Organizations • $421.4B Total Funding Amount • 13,705 Number of Investors

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on Mar 20, 2013.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Where is Livestar's headquarters? Livestar is located in New York, New York, United States.Who invested in Livestar? Livestar has 16 investors including Beehive Holdings and Morado Ventures.How much funding has Livestar raised to date? Livestar has raised
$2M
.When was the last funding round for Livestar? Livestar closed its last funding round on Jul 25, 2012 from a Seed round.