Overview
Update- Headquarters:
- San Francisco, CA
- Description:
- Instagram is a free photo sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
- Founders:
- Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger
- Categories:
- Photography, Photo Sharing, Mobile, Social Media
- Website:
- http://instagram.com
- Social:
Company Details
UpdateInstagram is a free photo sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr, and Posterous. It allows its users to capture and customize their photos and videos with several custom-built filter effects.
Developed by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram is compatible with all iOS and Android devices. It is currently used by over 200 million users worldwide.
Instagram was founded in 2010 in San Francisco, California. It was acquired by Facebook in April 2012.
Funding Rounds (3) - $57.5M
Update| Date | Amount / Round | Valuation | Lead Investor | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr, 2012 | $50M / Series B | $500M | Sequoia Capital | 5 |
| Feb, 2011 | $7M / Series A | — | Baseline Ventures | 5 |
| Mar, 2010 | $500k / Seed | — | — | 3 |
Investors (9)
Current Team (21)
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Kevin Systrom
Co-Founder & CEO
Mike Krieger
Co-Founder & CTO
Marne Levine
COO
James Quarles
Global Head of Business and Brand Development
Josh Riedel
Community + Partnerships
Nicky Jackson Colaco
Director of Public Policy
Board Members and Advisors (1)
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John Lilly
Investor (since 2012)
Products (7)
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Bolt
Instant one-to-one video and picture messaging from Instagram
Boomerang
Boomerang takes a burst of photos and stitches them together into a high-quality mini video that plays forward and backward.
Epigraph
Epigraph is an online baby album powered by Instagram.
Hyperlapse
Hyperlapse is an app that takes stabilized time-lapse video.
Instagram Direct
Instagram Direct lets you exchange threaded messages with one or more people, and share posts you see in Feed as a message.
Instmap
Instagram on the Map
Layout
An Instagram app that lets you easily combine multiple photos into a single image.
News (30,220)
Update| Date | News |
|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2016 | Business Wire - Landmark Cinemas Partners with Atom Tickets to Bring First-of-Its-Kind Social, Mobile Ticketing Experience to Canada |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Business Wire - Yoyo Wallet Chosen as One of the Top 50 Financial Technology Businesses at Money20/20 Europe and Honored as Best Financial Service in the 20th Annual Webby Awards |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Business Wire - CLIF Bar Named Official Sports Energy Bar and Gel Supplier of Prudential RideLondon 2016–2018 |
| Apr 10, 2016 | Daytona Beach Journal - Former NFL, OSU player Will Smith shot to death in apparent road-rage incident |
| Apr 9, 2016 | This is Money - Lettings live on despite the war on buy-to-let: The tax-efficient ways to profit from your holiday home |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Business Wire - AHF Explains the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Sydney Morning Herlad - Facebook faces decline in users' posting personal content |
| Apr 8, 2016 | The Age - Australia - Instagram activates out-of-order feed in New Zealand, other countries |
Competitors (6)
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ChatApp
The ChatApp is the next generation social app that will change the way you chat and communicate with new people!
DailyBooth
DailyBooth was a photoblogging website that enabled its users to take photos of themselves.
MOLOME
MOLOME is a smartphone app allowing its users to share photos with their friends directly from their mobile phones.
Path
Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts.
PicLyf
PicLyf.com is a picture blogging network that enables users to tell stories through pictures.
picplz
picplz is a photo sharing app that allows users to share their mobile pictures on the web.
Offices/Locations (1)
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P.O. Box 77421
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA
Past Team (6)
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Roelof Botha
Partner @ Sequoia Capital
Maykel Loomans
Product Designer @ Facebook
Tim Van Damme
Designer @ Dropbox
Past Event Appearances (2)
Droidcon San Francisco 2016 on Mar 17, 2016
Pycon 2015 on Apr 8, 2015
