{"id":96726,"date":"2009-12-23T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/23\/chacha-raises-another-7-million\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:49:15","slug":"chacha-raises-another-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96726","title":{"rendered":"ChaCha Raises Another $7 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Human-powered mobile answers service ChaCha<\/a> has raised $7 million funding, according to an SEC filing.<\/a> The company has confirmed the funding but declines to name investors. This brings ChaCha’s total funding to nearly $70 million.<\/a> <\/p>\n

ChaCha<\/a> has been the subject of a little bit of ridicule at TechCrunch since its launch, thanks to its entertaining snafus<\/a> and some issues<\/a> with its business model. Despite its various problems over the years, the company has been able to raise a boatload of money adding $4 million<\/a> to the pot earlier this year.<\/p>\n

While ChaCha’s service currently attracts about 9 million unique users per month through mobile devices and its website, the model has had some problems ChaCha has cut guides’ payments quite<\/a> a few<\/a> times<\/a> since its inception and was forced to lay off a significant part of its staff<\/a> earlier this year. The startup recently branched out from the answers engine by launching<\/a> a digital coupon service. <\/p>\n

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Human-powered mobile answers service ChaCha has raised $7 million funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has confirmed the funding but declines to name investors. This brings ChaCha’s total funding to nearly $70 million. ChaCha has been the subject of a little bit of ridicule at TechCrunch since its launch, thanks to its entertaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}