"But by the end of the day - last Sunday, eight days ago - I was running a Delaware corporation valued at $10 million with $100,000 in pre-seed funding, which is insane. I've been running a business based on consulting and based on academic R&D services," he continues. Instead the tweet "just completely exploded" and he found himself raising $100,000 "in a single day" - with $50,000 paid in there and then. "I posted that tweet and the expectation that I had was that basically 60 people max would retweet it and then maybe I'll set up a Kickstarter," he tells us. But Kobeissi says he was startled by the level of interest in the concept. For now there's nothing to see beyond Capsule's landing page and a pitch deck (which he shared with TechCrunch for review). or being able to be traced back to them to share it with others. Are you interested in funding its development? - Nadim Kobeissi JanuThe nascent startup has a post-money valuation on paper of $10 million, according to Kobeissi, who is working on the prototype - hoping to launch an MVP of Capsule in March (as a web app), after which he intends to raise a seed round (targeting $1 million-$1.5 million) to build out a team and start developing mobile apps. The messaging platforms ensure that there is a very low chance of the participants in a. It will be lightweight, user friendly and secure. These then connect to one another in a mesh, allowing following and sharing posts. I'm designing a decentralized social media solution where each user hosts their own microservice. The FCC has officially proposed, and voted unanimously to move forward with, a framework under which satellites can communicate directly with smartphones in a. A day later cryptography researcher, Nadim Kobeissi - best known for authoring the open-source E2E-encrypted desktop chat app Cryptocat (now discontinued) - had pulled in a pre-seed investment of $100,000 for his lightweight mesh-networked microservices concept, with support coming from angel investor and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, William J. The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media.
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