2010 was quite the year for Bump in many dimensions.  A year ago, we were a team of six, fresh on the heels of our first round of financing.  At the time, we were in the process of completely redesigning and rethinking our popular contact exchange app with a bigger vision in mind.  Today, our 15 person team supports more than 25 million users who have installed Bump on their iOS and Android devices (we’ve added more than a million users in the last two weeks alone!).  It seems you guys are digging our new features!  Daily traffic has increased more than five times in the last five months :)

Bump on iOS now allows you to share photos, music, contacts, calendar events, text messages, and connect on social networks, even when people aren’t close to one another. And, a new Android app is in the works.   We’re continuing on our path to make Bump the easiest and simplest way to interact not only with those around you, but also your friends around the world.

Today, we're excited to announce that over the holidays we raised a second round of funding -- $16 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, along with Sequoia, Sherpalo (Ram Shriram), SV Angel (Ron Conway), and Felicis Ventures (Aydin Senkut). We are thrilled to have Marc Andreessen join Greg McAdoo of Sequoia on our board. We’re sure that the experience and vision they will bring to our board will be a tremendous help as we continue to expand the scope of Bump.

This round of financing solidifies our priorities to build a world-class engineering and product organization here in Silicon Valley (did we mention we're hiring?).  We started Bump because we were frustrated that our phones were so useless for directly interacting with those around us, and we've only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible when it comes to valuable mobile interactions in the real world.  Stay tuned!

 -dave and the Bump Team