Can We Studios, a mobile application development company, has received $1.5 million in funding through private investors.
The Austin-based startup plans to launch the CanWeNetwork this summer, a professional networking applications online.
Brooke Braswell and Dan Kloiber founded Can We Studios last year.
Kloiber an angel investor and technology entrepreneur, led the investment round. He has “founded and sold three software companies to Fortune 100 corporations, and currently sits on a number of technology startup boards,” according to the company’s news release.
“The CanWeNetwork app meets a very critical demand in the marketplace today by having the ability to select and connect business professionals who would like to meet in real time and in person,” Kloiber said in a statement. “The CanWeNetwork app is very different than other mobile social networking apps available today because it is designed to select high-value personal introductions that open up new opportunities for each individual that otherwise would have been missed.”
The CanWeNetwork app is in private beta testing and is expected to be released this summer as a free app for iPhone and Android phones. The company will debut the app at SXSW Interactive.