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I think the reason is very clear. After some success in China, they are expanding globally, not only with the geolocation aspect, but to also create a decentralized platform and new wallet tech. Also the coins were never fully distributed, so they are not creating additional supply, just generating funding based on existing frozen supply.
The team members all have bios on their website. As you have alluded to China doesn't use English Linkedin, they use the Chinese version: 领英 - just google that and search the team members there.
I'm not sure why you mention GeoCoin, whose codebase has not been updated in 3 years and the developers are missing. That is a dead coin simply getting pumped. LomoCoin is very much alive, their github is active, and the original poster and team member just posted a few hours ago.
I think most of the concerns here are due to a lack of understanding of the China market and because people are unaware of what is going on over there. I believe as they begin their Western marketing and expansion more questions can be clarified.
By the way, I should also ask - do you own any Bitcoins?
Who is the developer of Bitcoin, can you show me their LinkedIn bio?
See my point? The most important aspect here is regardless of their LinkedIn credentials (which you also do not have for GeoCoin), is that the LomoCoin project is active, the members post here, and they have hundreds of thousands REAL users on their mobile apps in China. That is better than many alt coins right now. But it's very undervalued because people don't know this info in the West where crypto currency is more popular. That's why, in the last few days, Yuanbao had $10+ million in volume for LomoCoin, and Bittrex only had $2 mil at most. In the last 24hrs, the volume on this coin was close to the volume on ZCash, the coin partnered by JP Morgan Chase. The Chinese know about this coin, but the Westerners do not. I am certain when the Western countries learn more about this coin it will not be a 6 page thread, and it will not be undervalued as it is now.
So the purpose of the additional funding is to bring awareness to their success and clarify these through Western communication channels, to be able to raise funds for even greater developments. Imagine if this coin was traded on Poloniex or other large exchanges?
Also, I should add that, in China, Bitcoin and crypto currency has been taboo for some time. In some cases it has been illegal and exchanges have had really rough waters to navigate. Given that, you should understand that the developers are not going to be shouting out their identities and being too public with this. I think they are purposely expanding globally because there is even more potential for this overseas, outside of China.
You may or may not be right on the details you allude to regarding the respective coins.
What does sound a bit absurd though is your repeated comparisons of Lomocoin devs to Ethereum, bitcoin etc devs. Aside from the nonsensical aspect, it makes a person wonder why you are trying to impose a logical fallacy in defense of a cryptocurrency, rather than giving real info.
Lomocoin is not bitcoin, it's developers are not Satoshi Nakamotos or whatever.
Neither is the coin comparable to ethereum, which may be a good thing for Lomo actually
I'll retreat from this discussion but hope that there is more accessible information that does not rely on trying to coerce people into trust.