COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist

If you have even the slightest hint of a creative streak, you may be interested in COLOURlovers , a startup whose products let you easily express yourself using shapes and colors, even if you aren't particularly good at it. The Y Combinator-backed company has built up a community around creating color palettes, a matching iPhone app , and even a tool for sprucing up your Twitter profile. And now the company has closed its first seed round. COLOURlovers has raised $1 million from investors including Atlas Venture, Morado Ventures, Founder Collective, Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups, Seraph Group & Zelkova Ventures, Matt Mullenweg, Alexis Ohanian, Don Hutchinson, Dharmesh Shah, Jared Friedman, and Shawn Bercuson.