App recommendation company AppHero has confirmed it has secured seed funding to the tune of US$1.8 million.

AppHero’s intelligent social recommendation platform helps users by personalising the app discovery process. The platform works by analysing the historical activity of users and their social data and basing app recommendations on this information. It also allows users to share recommendations with friends.

The majority of the investment (US$1.3 million) has come from Omers Ventures, Golden Venture Partner, Eniac Ventures and angel investors, with a further US$500,000 coming from other sources.

AppHero CEO Jordan Satok said the funding will be used to grow the development team and to make the social platform more intelligent and suitable for other verticals.

"Our job is to find the best and brightest companies at any stage of development that we believe have the opportunity to achieve significant success in their markets. We believe AppHero has that potential, and we're excited to be working with the team at AppHero to shape the future of mobile discovery," said managing director of Omers Ventures, Derek Smyth.