Gurgaon-based Virtual Boards Technologies which operates the social image curation platform Kwaab has raised an undisclosed round of angel funding from Vivek Gupta, reports VCCircle. Confirming this funding to Medianama, Kwaab Co-founder Sudanshu Aggarwal said they will be using the funds raised for product development, marketing and hiring. They also plan to launch a mobile site in the future. Aggarwal said that the site went live about two months ago and claimed that the site already has 70,000 registered users, although he didn't disclose how many of them were active users. Pinterest Clone? When we checked, we noticed that the site is really similar to Pinterest in terms of functionality. It allows users to browse through random images curated by users and mark any image using like, want or have button to add that specific image to the respective boards or add any comment on that image. One can either view all the images uploaded by users or choose any specific category like Automobiles, Lifestyle and Food & Drinks from the navigation bar to view content related to that category. One can also click on any specific image to expand it and view additional details like people who have liked it, or added the image to their Want and Have boards. Expectedly, it also allows one to create picture message boards and add images to any specific board of their preference from their desktop or from the web. It also allows one to follow any specific user profile, however we feel the feature is currently redundant since there…
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