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Kik
Mobile messaging app with built-in browser
At a glance
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Waterloo, Canada
- Sector
- Consumer Services
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Kik.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
Foundation Capital
Tencent- VPValiant Capital Partners
SV Angel
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Kik employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SUSubstackEst. 2017
Hamish McKenzieUnited States
BOBoardyEst. 2024
Andrew D'SouzaCanada
CRCREDEst. 2018
Jon Carr-HarrisUnited Kingdom
EMEDGE MarketsEst. 2020
Josh JacobsUnited States
OROrbsEst. 2017
Tal KolIsraelGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
9 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Kik was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2017. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Kik's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Kik deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Kik's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Kik on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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