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Back in October Facebook announced the 25 winners of fbFund, each of which has received $25,000 to develop their application further. That was only one round of fbFund; now, 5 winners have been chosen, with each receiving additional $225,000.

fbFund is a 10 million dollar seed fund which is a little different than traditional seed funds; the startups that receive grants keep 100% equity, however Facebook, together with its partners - venture capital firms Accel Partners and Founders Fund - has the first rights to invest in these startups in case they seek additional funding.

The winning startups are:

GroupCard - GroupCard lets users rally their friends to sign the same printable online card to celebrate any occassion. Each friend can add a message, upload photos or audio, and even make a gift contribution. GroupCard started at Stanford, and is already used by thousands of groups worldwide.

Kontagent - Kontagent is the leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers. Kontagent analytics provides deep social data visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights delivered via a hosted, on-demand service.

HitGrab - MouseHunt, a HitGrab creation, is a game of epic proportions. Players are hunters, hired by the king to trap mice that infest his kingdom. For each mouse caught, users will find a reward, bringing them closer to being the best MouseHunter in the land.

WedSnap - WedSnap created Weddingbook, a social network on Facebook for those preparing for a wedding. Brides and grooms meet on Weddingbook to get advice, support, and inspiration during their engagement and wedding planning process.

Wildfire - Wildfire enables consumers to discover, share and engage with interactive promotions like contests, sweepstakes and give-aways and enables companies to easily create their own attractive, branded promotions that are automatically integrated with Facebookâ€™s social features.

See the full list of fbFund finalists here.

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