• Vator News, Friday, August 12, 2011 11:28 AM

Mobile Q&A app Opinionaided just raised a $4.3 million Series A round led by SoftBank Capital and BlueRun Ventures. "If you've never tried it, you simply must (I insist)," writes Vator News' Faith Merino. "The process is simple and straightforward: Users can connect via Facebook and post a question along with an associated image, select the age and sex of the users they want to query ... or keep it within their own intimate circle of friends."

In addition, Opinionaided just announcing the release of version 3.1 of its iOS app, which features a revamped user interface and allows users to post questions to the Opinionaided community, as well as friends outside of Opinionaided, using SMS, Twitter and Facebook. The start-up only closed a $1 million seed round in March.

Many of its seed investors participated in this latest round, too, including General Catalyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DreamIt Ventures' Mark Wachen, Jonah Goodhart of Point Ventures Group, Facebook advisor and Path investor Karl Jacob, ENIAC Ventures, and former Googler Vince Monical.

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