For Cappture co-founders Mathew Carpenter and Callum Chapman, the problem wasn’t so much a lack of local support, more the fact the big guns decimated their initial team.
Cappture was initially a four-man band before two members departed after being approached by the likes of Apple, Google and Facebook.
Undaunted, Carpenter and Chapman, both just 20 years old, continued work on the start-up, which provides an app that allows users to take multiple photographs, with each picture accompanied with a caption that will summarise their day.
The persistence of these young guns paid off in June when they struck a deal with Mokriya, a Silicon Valley-based firm, to handle the development of the app.
“(Mokriya) has an excellent track record working with some hot mobile start-ups including Hipster, which was acquired by AOL, Path, which raised $41.2 million and SimpleGeo, which raised $9.61 million,” Carpenter explained at the time.
“Our main goal at this point is to move forward as fast as possible and get Cappture into the App Store and with the team we’ve built, this shouldn’t be a problem. In terms of raising funds, we’re keeping our options open.”
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