San Francisco - Seesmic, a start-up founded by French Web entrepreneur Loic Le Meur that is developing live video webcam communications technology, has raised $6 million in funding, led by Atomico.

Other investors included TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington; AOL co-founder Steve Case; LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman; Dan Gillmor and video blogger Steve Garfield.

"Until now, online communication has lacked personality, being limited to text (IM, SMS, email). Seesmic changes that, bringing conversation alive through video, allowing users to be seen and heard and to broadcast themselves," the company said.

Currently in closed alpha, Seesmic is being built with input from its community of users.

"This significant investment will enable us to launch a site built by and for our community, incorporating the products and features they've told us they want through their Seesmic conversations," said Seesmic founder and CEO Loic Le Meur.

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