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Photo Software - Monday, December 3, 2007

Private Image Hosting Service Drop.io Raises $1.25M

We had thought that when word came out from Google that it would offer hosting that this would give investors pause from backing more image hosting startups Not so. NYC-based Drop.io has raised $1.25M in a Series A round of funding led by RRE Ventures.

For sure Drop.io gives us a new twist on hosting, as its set up for temporary, private use. Let's say your want to have some photos hosted that you want to share with some friends but you don't want the world to see. You can go to Drop.io and share with others using a temporary URL. Centernetworks points out that is particularly helpful for people like agencies who don't want people to see their media assets.

Drop.io was founded in the summer of 2007 by Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar. The two, who met at Harvard, explain that the idea hit them that they both maintained basic FTP sites just to move stuff around privately.

See this CenterNetworks Review/Walk-through

BTW - if you like the .io , '.io' is the top level domain for the British Indian Ocean Territory.

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