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"Pop star Selena Gomez is now invested in more than just her music career and her romantic relationship with Justin Bieber. She just put a pile of cash into Postcard on the Run, a free app that creates photo postcards from your phone and mails them for you, as part of a $750,000 funding round.\n\"We joke about it a bit, but Selena and I talk about being in the business of memories,\" Josh Brooks, CEO at Postcard on the Run and former Myspace executive, told Mashable Thursday. \"Her investment in Postcard on the Run naturally fits into her tech savviness and her involvement showcases her forward thinking dedication to new media platforms.\"\nGomez joins a handful of celebrity investors who have infused the tech world with their money (see gallery below). This is Gomez's first tech investment, AllThingsD reports. \nBrooks refused to disclose to Mashable how much of the $750,000 came from Gomez, instead detailing the round's other investors: Crosscut Ventures, Mike Jones, Kamran Pourzanjani, Yves Sisteron, Aber Whitcomb, Brian Fitzgerald, Ryan Steelberg, Colin Digiaro, Brian Lee, Chris DeWolfe and Jarl Mohn. \nThe round closed last week. You can check out the Android app here and the iOS app here.\nOther Celebrities Who Invest in Tech Startups\n\n\n8 Mainstream Celebrities Who Invest in Tech Startups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Lady Gaga\n\nStartup Investments: Lady Gaga and fellow celebrity Kanye West invested $7.5 million in Turntable.fm - a website that allows you to experience and discover music online with your friends. Users can rate music with their friends by clicking either the \"Awesome\" or \"Lame\" button, or become a DJ by spinning tunes with other DJs on the site.\nImage courtesy of LadyGaga.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Leonardo DiCaprio\n\nStartup Investments: Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio  contributed to the $4 million raised for social media platform Mobli, a website that enables users to see the world through other people's eyes.\nThrough Mobli, users can quickly and easily share videos and photos of their experiences or interests in real-time. Each experience can be shared with like-minded communities.\nImage courtesy of LeonardoDiCaprio.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Justin Timberlake\n\nStartup Investments: In addition to investing in social media website MySpace and contributing to the $2 million raised for Stipple, Justin Timberlake recently poured his money into photo website Dekko.\nDekko combines different domains of technology to change the way users understand the world through pictures.\nImage courtesy of Flickr edwardk662\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Will Ferrell\n\nStartup Investments: Will Ferrell launched his comedy video website, Funny or Die, in 2007 with the video \"The Landlord.\" The video was viewed nearly 80 million times and the website now develops and hosts videos from Hollywood stars and aspiring celebrities.\nUsers can upload videos they consider to be funny and can also vote on which videos are funny and which should be removed from the site.\nImage courtesy of Flickr Neil Dorgan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Ashton Kutcher\n\nStartup Investments: Ashton Kutcher is definitely the star of startup investments, with investments made in more than 10 companies.\nKutcher's startup investments include the following, among others:\nFoursquare, GroupMe, Hipmunk, Chegg, Flipboard, Milk, TinyChat, Fab.com, Path, Airbnb, Optimizely, Blekko, WarbyParker.\nImage courtesy of Flickr jdlasica\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. M.C. Hammer\n\nStartup Investments: At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, M.C. Hammer announced his investment in WireDoo, a \"deep search\" engine that includes relational information in results. For example, a search for a specific car will also generate results relating to the model, mileage, specs and even the zipcode.\nWireDoo is not available to the public as yet, but anyone can sign up on the website to test drive the Beta.\nM.C. Hammer has also co-founded and invested in DanceJam, a website that allows users to upload videos of themselves dancing.\nImage courtesy of Flickr O'Reilly Conferences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Justin Bieber\n\nStartup Investments: While there is no proof that the Canadian singer and actor is investing in tech-startups, a video of Justin Bieber playing basketball with Phoenix Suns player Steve Nash certainly hints at the idea.\nOne of the basketball players in the video was Mike Duda, co-partner of Nash's venture capital firm, Consigliere Brand Capital. Consigliere has invested in three startups based in New York -- StellaService, Chloe &amp; Isabel and Birchbox. Bieber may be on his way to becoming the next startup investor among celebrities.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Kim Kardashian\n\nStartup Investments: Celebrity stylist Kim Kardashian co-founded Shoedazzle, a site that chooses shoes for its users based on their personal style.\nFor $39.95 per month, users get a box of shoes, a bag or jewelry that they can keep for 30 days. If they don't like the style, they can return their item and Shoedazzle will refund the money.\nImage courtesy of  KimKardashian.celebuzz.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBONUS: How Postcard on the Run Works\nThe Android and iOS apps both came out around September. Since then, Postcard on the Run users now have the option to add scratch-and-sniff scents \u2014 such as suntan lotion, Christmas tree or holiday spice \u2014 to their postcards. Here's how the app works:\n\n\nPostcard on the Run\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPostcard on the Run\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoose Photo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite Message\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChange Text Color\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChange Font\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSign Postcard\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngps enabled photo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreview Card (front)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreview Card (back)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrder Complete\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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