Snapchat: after raising funds of $485.6 million, the company valued at $10 billion

Snapchat, a mobile messaging and video/photo-sharing platform, raised $485.6m (about €403m) from 23 investors, according to documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), registered on 31/12/2014.

The identity of the new shareholders was not disclosed, but the IT companies Yahoo! Inc. and Amazon, as well as the venture...