• TechCrunch
• CrunchBase
• More
  • TechCrunch Europe
  • TechCrunch France
  • TechCrunch Japan

Kik Interactive

edit

Kik was founded in 2009, when a small but incredibly passionate group of University of Waterloo students decided to build a company that would shift the center of computing from the PC to the phone.

Based in Waterloo, Ontario the company now has about 30 employees working on Kik Messenger, the simplest, fastest, most life-like chat experience on a smartphone.

In November 2012 the company introduced Kik Cards, mini-apps built in HTML5 that let users search for and send YouTube videos, find and share images, Reddit pics and GIFs, and create sketches and memes - without leaving Kik and or having to download a separate app.

Kik Cards is also a powerful gaming platform, with Kik’s first game Squared reaching over 1M installs in just over a month.

Kik is backed by major VCs and has raised $29.1M to date. Its VCs are the same firms that first helped Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and others become household names.

Today Kik has over 50M users and adds 200,000 new users a day.

Recent Milestones

edit

• 
  Kik Interactive — Kik Raises $19.5M in Series B Funding (4/21/13)
  Posted 4/23/13 at 10:35am via techcrunch.com
• 
  Kik Interactive received $19.5M in Series B funding. (4/21/13)
  Posted 4/23/13 at 7:12am via techcrunch.com
• 
  Kik Interactive added Anamitra Banerji as Board Director. (1/1/13)
  Posted 4/29/13 at 1:17pm
• 
  Kik Interactive received $8M in Series A funding. (3/7/11)
  Posted 3/7/11 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  Kik Interactive added Fred Wilson as Board Director. (3/1/11)
  Posted 4/7/11 at 8:34pm
• 
  Kik Interactive added Bill Raduchel as Advisor. (1/1/10)
  Posted 2/1/12 at 4:47pm
• 
  Kik Interactive added Peter Heinke as CFO \ COO.
  Posted 11/24/11 at 8:26pm
• 
  Kik Interactive added Ted Livingston as CEO.
  Posted 4/30/10 at 3:58pm
• 
  Kik Interactive added Adam Ludwin as Board Director.
  Posted 4/1/11 at 8:21pm
• 
  Kik Interactive added Sam Spadafora as Board Chairman.
  Posted 4/29/13 at 1:27pm

Videos

Screenshots

edit

Above: samsung GT-S5230
Uploaded: 6/1/12

Sources

1. Mobile Messaging Startup Kik Raises $8M; Launches Group Chat And Photo Sharing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Kik Raises $19.5M Series B, Bets On Its Cards Platform Play To Take On WhatsApp And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Kik Raises $19.5M Series B, Bets On Its Cards Platform Play To Take On WhatsApp And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]