YikYak the sequoia for 62 million dollars a year, valued at hundreds of millions of

We have previously reported that the 1500-meter anonymous social application based on lbs Yik Yak just close a round of about 75 million dollars in financing, and today the message released by the WSJ informant is another version: Sequoia, 62 million dollars. In just a year's time, the value is hundreds of millions of dollars.

Investors want to bet on the next Snapchat or WhatsApp, although the social market is already crowded, especially as the Sequoia has done WhatsApp such a successful case before.

AppAnnie data says the popularity of the Up-and-comer among college students has surpassed those of Whisper and secret. In July this year, it just got DCM, Renren, Azure Capital and Vaizra investments,tim Draper, Kevin Colleran with a 11 million dollar a round of funding.

Yik Yak can be said to be an anonymous geographically based BBS, pure text + map form, now covers about 1300 campuses, users can publish whatever they want to say, and based on the current scene of the event information dissemination, such as a race, concert anecdotes and so on. Every post posted will be seen by people within a 1500-metre range, and users can vote on it-"click" or "POST". Users can also set the number of people who can see this message.

In addition to relying on the bus ads, YikYak adopted the promotion method is mainly super user help push, these people are the Yak Karma (its integral system) of the high points of people. Therefore, the University student user group is also their main target. Because of learning