Nigerian social-business tech start-up Friendzdiary has received $6000 in seed funding and is relaunching early next year as Termii Networks.
Formerly known as Friendzdiary.com, the Nigerian social-business tech start-up was founded by University of Lagos and OOU alumni Gbolade Emmanuel and Okoli Kevin. The two told TechMoran they have raised the seed money from a managing partner of a prestigious Law firm in Lagos, MESSR SEGUN AND SEGUN and will now rebrand to a better name not just for friends but businesses too.
According to the founder Gbolade Emmanuel and CEO David Amobi, the site is set to launch in January alongside its Android, BlackBerry and iPhone apps. The Beta launch is expected to ascertain the networks capabilities and receive user feedback.
The platform, built for networking offers different range of apps that enhance business and social networking. It has album and pix sharing allowing users to upload and share pictures, rate and comment on pictures.
The task management feature allows users to add tasks and share them with friends or co-workers. Organizations can rate task usage and add task events to event calendar. It also allows users a virtual office capability to do business on the go. The platform is easy to customize and to use. Termii is file sharing compatible, and users can upload, tag, rate and read ppt, msword, excel online. Also supported are web page file and zip files.
Founded last year, www.friendzdiary.com was a Real time social diary to share, post, connect and meet people and also share documents, softwares, real time articles, cv’s, mails, photos, videos, anywhere, anytime. With its sleek design, and html 5 + live wire feature users can write volumes of books, chat and play games using html flash features.