Move over Yelp, there is a new app with cool emojis in the market which empowers the small businesses that are often ignored in the mass market. High school student Buffy Li from California created TagDat to help out small local businesses and for busy people like her...
Li created TagDat with co-founders Wilson Li (no relation), 21, and University of California student Zheng Cai, 31. The team combines Li’s minimalist design ideals and foodie bent with Cai’s big data chops (he’s an astrophysics post-doc and NASA Hubble Fellow) and Wilson Li’s startup knowledge...
After raising $280,000 in pre-seed funding, TagDat is off to a hot start. You’ve probably never heard of the recommendation app, as it launched just under a year ago and competes in the same space as heavy-hitters like Yelp and TripAdvisor. That could soon change...
Some high school juniors go for debate. Others for volleyball. Jinyuan (Buffy) Li, who's in her next-to-last year at Kirby Preparatory School in Santa Cruz, is spending her after-school hours looking for $4 million in seed funding...
“I’m really, and I think a lot of people, they actually tend to be visual thinkers,” Li said. “So when they see something, it evokes an emotion and it tells more than just words, but yet you can tell right away. It’s like seeing someone’s expression, rather than reading it in a book...”
And, even more surprising to Buffy, TagDat recently received $250K in pre-seed investment funding! Despite what she says, I wouldn’t call this “ordinary” for a high school student. Indeed, this is her second adventure at a startup. She was an early-stage employee at Haorizi, a social gathering platform for Chinese housewives....
