Prior to this funding, it had raised an undisclosed sum of investment from CyberAgent Ventures back in March of 2012. Tokyo-based Talknote, the startup behind the corporate communication platform of the same name, announced today it has raised 200 million yen (approximately $2 million) from Japanese investment company Lead Capital Management. If you’d like to give RoadMovies a try, you can get it for free from the App Store. As you can see in the sample video below (posted to YouTube), the result is beautifully retro and fun. To summarize what the application does, it allows you to record many short clips that can then be conjoined to make a 24-second video with filter effects and right-free background music applied. I’m using it to make short home movies of my baby, for example. Honda’s original intention may have been for people to use their app to document road trips (especially using the interval camera feature), but my guess is that people are using it for all kinds of purposes. Personally, I’m a big fan of the app, and I still use it regularly. Just recently it was announced that RoadMovies has surpassed the 3 million downloads milestone, this according to Nikkei Business. Ever since then the app has continued to do well in its home market in Japan, but also in South Korea too, where it has been a top–5 mainstay in the iOS photo category. Back in August we featured Honda’s mobile video app RoadMovies, which at the time was the top-ranked photo app in Japan.
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