{"id":727978,"date":"2010-05-17T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-17:article\/419-booyah-raises-20-million-for-its-check-in-app"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:23:45","slug":"booyah-gets-20-million-for-its-check-in-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727978","title":{"rendered":"Booyah Gets $20 Million For Its Check-In App"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Booyah<\/a>, a startup battling rivals Gowalla and FourSquare in the very<\/em> hot location-based mobile app market, has raised $20 million. Like Gowalla and FourSquare, Booyah’s app, MyTown, lets users check in at actual locations. They can also “buy” locations and charge rent when others visit. <\/p>\n

The company says in a release<\/a> that MyTown is gaining more than 100,000 new users a week and now has two million users. That puts it ahead of Gowalla, which claims 250,000 users, and FourSquare, which has 1.1 million, according to stats put together<\/a> by TechCrunch<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

Booyah had raised<\/a> $4.5 million in a first round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers one-and-a-half years ago back when it was concentrating on another app, Booyah Society, which let users keep track of their daily accomplishments and earn badges for completing tasks, like visiting a real-world destination; the company raised another $5 million<\/a> in September. This round was led by Accel Partners; existing backers Kleiner Perkins and DAG Ventures also participated.\n<\/p>\n

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