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Kiosk
Fintech · New York City, United States · Founded 2024
Combines social and on-chain commerce, enabling creators to build communities, share media-rich ideas, mint NFTs, gather like-minded collectors, establish custom channel economics, and engage with… MoreLess
Kiosk is a New York-based company developing a client for the Farcaster protocol, a decentralized social network. Announced in May 2024, the firm is focused on integrating on-chain commercial activities directly within a social media experience. The company's platform is designed for content creators, providing them with tools to build and manage online communities.
The development of Kiosk is being led by a team that includes Denis Nazarov, the founder of the Web3 publishing platform Mirror. In May 2024, Kiosk announced it had secured $10 million in a funding round. The investment was led by Electric Capital and included participation from a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures (USV), and Variant Fund. This capital is intended to support the expansion of the product's features and its user base.
Kiosk's core offering is an application that bridges social interactions with blockchain-based commerce. Users can share media-rich content which can then be minted as a non-fungible token (NFT) directly within the app. The platform allows for the creation of specialized channels where creators can gather collectors and collaborators. It also enables the establishment of custom channel economies, supporting features like tipping and content distribution. A key objective is to reduce the friction for users when creating, sharing, or minting on-chain assets. The platform aims to provide a more integrated experience, removing the need to leave the application for these on-chain transactions. By making on-chain assets a fundamental part of the social feed, Kiosk seeks to create a feedback loop between digital assets and the communities that support them.
Keywords: Farcaster client, on-chain social, decentralized social media, Web3 community building, crypto creator tools, NFT minting, social commerce, community economics, on-chain assets, decentralized applications, Denis Nazarov, Electric Capital, a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures, Variant Fund, social tokens, creator economy, Web3 social, blockchain social media, crypto social network
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Employees
- 15
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 78.1
Valuation & funding
Kiosk funding history
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| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEEDOther financing | May 2024 | $10M | $40M | Electric Capital · Union Square Ventures · Andreessen Horowitz · Variant | ↗ |
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Workforce over time
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| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 |
| 2025 | 16 |
| 2024 | 10 |
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Latest recorded traffic for Kiosk is 2K monthly website visits, up 66.7% over the last three months. Kiosk's team declined 6.3% over the past year.
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