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Kik
Consumer Services · Waterloo, Canada · Founded 2009 Unicorn
Kik mafia
Startups founded by Kik alumni
Former Kik employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Hamish McKenzieUnited States
Andrew D'SouzaCanada
Jon Carr-HarrisUnited Kingdom
Tal KolIsrael
Ted LivingstonCanada
Ilan LeibovichIsrael
Anton LopyrevUnited States
Josh JacobsUnited States
Georgia HongUnited States
Taylor CooneyCanadaGlobal footprint
Where Kik has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$4M patent portfolio · 9 active families
Where Kik concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Kik and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Kik's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Kik appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Kik
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Kik on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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