Joining the ranks of Ashton Kutcher, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga in promoting tech startups, Leonardo DiCaprio has surfaced as one of a group of investors who put up $4 million in seed money for visual social media platform Mobli, tech news site Mashable reports. “Mobli allows people from all over the world to share moments,” says DiCaprio, who is taking an advisory post. The way users “share” those moments is by taking photos and videos that Mobli tags automatically with a location or major event that makes it possible to follow specific users, locations and topics. Lukas Haas is another investor. One thing that distinguishes Mobli from similar platforms is the participation of high-recognition names like DiCaprio, David Arquette and even Paris Hilton (remember her?). DiCaprio has posted only seven times, but has more than 8,000 followers. His Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has separately posted 24 times. But those 31 posts have accounted for 163,244 “media views” — which as DiCaprio, Kutcher and other celebs illustrate, a little goes a long way.


If the only “thing that distinguishes Mobli from similar platforms is the participation of high-recognition names like DiCaprio, David Arquette and even Paris Hilton” Mobli won’t be around for long.
This isn’t any different than Tom Hanks’ promotions of WhoSay.com. None of these will ever be a threat to Twitter.
sounds like this company is just waiting be sold to the department of homeland security.
Interesting idea, but the name sucks. Gaining meaningful traction in the marketplace with a new brand is never easy, but starting out with a stupid name like “Mobli” will make this effort harder than it has to be.
I may steal the idea, hire a group of programmers from India at $6/hour to develop the site, and spend $1000 for a decent domain name that actually has a shot in hell at being remembered by our iZombie populace…perhaps I’ll even hire Leo to be my pitchman after Mobli folds.
Tech geeks move to Silicon Valley, present an old social media idea and get some Hollywood cash.
Easy.
I have been a member of Mobli for months now and I have to say it’s the best app I have ever downloaded! I’ve met such amazing people during that time and they are like family now! It’s not only a app for sharing photos and videos it’s also a community of great people sharing their lives with us from all around the world! I think people need to try Mobli before leaving bad comments on it as they don’t know just how amazing it is! Also I love the name as it is simple and memorable!