Funding
Seed · Consumer

Instagram predecessor Burbn raises $500,000 seed round

Early funding for the project that would become Instagram.

By RoundOS Funding desk

Kevin Systrom’s Burbn raised $500,000 from Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

The location-sharing project later became Instagram after a pivot to mobile photo sharing.

Funding history

Seed · This round$500K

Sources

  1. Original Burbn completed seed financing reporttechcrunch.com · Mar 5, 2010
  2. Kevin Systrom founder interview describes Burbn to Instagram pivottechcrunch.com · Feb 2, 2011

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