> Blippar may have blown up in dramatic fashion, burning through more than $130 million in funding for its dream of building an augmented reality empire... Wow

> Blippar may have blown up in dramatic fashion, burning through more than $130 million in funding for its dream of building an augmented reality empire... Wow > At one point, the startup had more than 300 employees and claimed a $1.5 billion valuation. Somewhat surprised I hadn't heard of them. Lots of posts about them [0], but it seems this is the first time they're being upvoted. I would have loved to see more of these posts than the common posts about Tesla, Uber, Apple, and Google, and cryptocurrencies that get so many upvotes. I generally just scroll through the "new" page now. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=blippar&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=blippar&sort=byPopularity&pref...