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Zach Allia
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Zach Allia is an American photographer, entrepreneur and web developer. In 2007 Allia founded "Free Gifts" for Facebook, which became the most popular app on Facebook, with over 10 million active users. Career Allia founded Free Gifts in 2007 in response to other Facebook applications charging $1 or more for "gifts". In 2010, Allia bought back Free Gifts for "less than 10%" of original purchase price by SGN. The application was endorsed by Mark Zuckerberg and had over 150,000 unique visitors per month as of March 2012. Later in 2012, Allia co-founded Soma, eco-friendly water filtration systems. Allia was responsible for creating the company's Kickstarter dashboard, named "Kickstarter Status Board", later available for free as a Google Chrome extension. In July 2013, Soma announced a $3.7 million round of funding with investors including Baseline Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Vast Ventures, Mindful Investors, and Tim Ferriss.<ref name=funding/> 
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