November 29th, 2012

Rounds Social Video Chat App Goes Mobile, Recreates Hangout Feel With Shared YouTube Viewing, Photo Uploads

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Social video chat app Rounds has reason to be proud: the company has raised a total of $5 million in funding and now has more than six million users across the breadth of its platform, which includes Facebook, Chrome, and desktop. Today, however, the company is launching a brand new mobile app for the first time called Rounds Video Chat Hangout.

Along with facilitating a standard video chat… → Read More

June 4th, 2012

Social Video Chat App Rounds Expands From Facebook To Mac & PC

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Rounds, the social video chat app for Facebook and the web, backed by $5.5 million in funding from Verizon Investments, Rhodium, DFJ’s Tim Draper and other angels, is now expanding to the desktop. This week, the company will debut its Windows and Mac applications which will allow users to send and receive video chat calls to and from their friends without using their web browser or visiting… → Read More

November 2nd, 2011

Social Video Facebook App Rounds Raises $3M From Verizon, Tim Draper

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Rounds, a social video and gaming application, has raised $3 million in new funding led by Verizon Investments with Rhodium and DFJ’s Tim Draper participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $5.5 million.

Rounds offers online experiences that mimic real-life personal encounters. Users can play with fun webcam effects, collaboratively watch YouTube videos, play multi-user… → Read More

February 3rd, 2011

Rounds.com Adds Some Chatroulette To Its Facebook App, With A Twist

Many a video application maker claims to have built a ‘Chatroulette for Facebook’, meaning an app that enables random video-chat connections between Facebook users in real-time. Rounds.com also has such an app, but offers a bit more than just video-based meetings between random people.

Already at 335,000 monthly active users and counting, Rounds’ Facebook app now boasts a ‘Random Rounds’ feature→ Read More

August 17th, 2010

6rounds Changes Name To Rounds, Brings Its Video Chat Goodness To Facebook

It’s over a year ago when we covered the launch of 6rounds, a consumer-facing video chat platform with a couple of interesting twists that made it a lot of fun to use.

Henceforth, the startup and service will be called Rounds – they’re now leasing the domain name rounds.com, which is far more memorable.

The company is today also debuting a cool video chat application on the Facebook platform… → Read More