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KickApps

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KickApps provides on-demand social media applications that enable web publishers and marketers to grow, engage, and monetize online audiences. Its SaaS platform is powered by the first Social Graph Engine for web publishers. The platform includes social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players, drag-and-drop widget building, WidgeAds and other applications that are tightly integrated with Robust Media Moderation, member management and reporting.

View a chart that we compiled in Summer 2007 that compares this company’s social networking product to others.

In March 2007 KickApps partnered with YouTube by providing KickApps’s affiliates with the ability to easily pull relevant and compelling video from the YouTube library into their own KickApps-powered networks through the YouTube API. KickApps also added features that allow its affiliates to easily publish video from their networks directly to their YouTube accounts.

Milestones

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• Received $14M in Series C funding. (11/25/08)
  Posted 11/25/08 at 8:47am
• KickApps — KickApps Announces Series C Funding of $14 Million (11/25/08)
  Posted 12/8/08 at 3:32pm
• KickApps — KickApps Adds Live Chat, IM and Presence With Userplane (7/16/08)
  Posted 7/16/08 at 10:21am
• KickApps — KickApps Releases Version 3.0 (1/31/08)
  Posted 7/16/08 at 10:19am
• Received $11M in Series B funding. (8/1/07)
  Posted 8/14/07 at 2:48am
• Received $7M in Series A funding. (6/1/06)
  Posted 8/14/07 at 2:50am
• Alex Blum, CEO added.
  Posted 7/11/07 at 9:52pm
• Eric Alterman, Founder and Chairman added.
  Posted 7/11/07 at 5:08am
• Jarl Mohn, Board/Investor added.
  Posted 7/11/07 at 10:43pm
• Peter Clark, Co-Founder added.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 11:34pm
• Rahul Daterao, Chief Technology Officer added.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 11:36pm
• Amol Daterao, Chief Information Officer added.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 11:36pm
• Mike Sommers, SVP, Product Management added.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 11:36pm
• Michael Chin, SVP, Marketing added.
  Posted 3/13/08 at 11:36pm

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KickApps

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Website	kickapps.com
Blog	kickapps.com/blog
Stage	Live
Launch Date	February 15, 2005
Tags	wiki

Above: KickApps Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Sources

1. Stealth-Mode KickApps Seals $6M Series A, Plans Beta (kickapps.com) [edit]
2. KickApps Secures Series B Funding to Extend Leadership in Hosted Social Media Platform Market (kickapps.com) [edit]
3. KickApps Actually Raises $14 Million In Series C Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. KickApps Releases Version 3.0 (kickapps.com) [edit]
5. KickApps Adds Live Chat, IM and Presence With Userplane (kickapps.com) [edit]
6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]