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Yope
Friends-only, AI-native photo sharing app
About Yope
Yope is a friends-only, AI-native photo app for micro-communities, built around the idea of sharing real life only with the people you actually know. Its slogan is "don't perform, just yope", and it positions itself as an alternative to public, feed-based social networks where users feel pressure to curate and perform for an audience.
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The mechanics are deliberately simple. Each user has their own page and a camera, and a snap taken in the app lands directly on friends' lock screens, with no feed, no likes and no algorithm. Users can personalise their profile with colours, wallpapers and faces, pick a vibe, and build streaks with friends, with a playful interface that includes a daily recap and a recurring notification-style message. The company describes the app as AI-native, using AI in how the experience is built and personalised.
The app is free and available on the App Store, for iOS 16 and later, and on Google Play for Android. It reports a rating of about 4.7 with more than 100,000 App Store reviews and says that more than fourteen million people already share real life on it. The company also runs a programme for creators, a press kit and a careers page, and maintains accounts on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.
Yope is a consumer social app aimed mainly at teenagers and young adults who keep in touch with close friends, and its business model is built on scale in consumer engagement rather than on advertising to a public feed. It competes in the mobile social and photo-sharing market against established networks and newer friend-based apps.
At a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Middletown, United States
- Employees
- 50
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 77.9/100
- Industry
- Media
- Sub-industry
- Social media
- Sector
- Consumer Services, Media and Entertainment, Media and Content, Social Platform
- Technology
- Mobile app
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b, b2c
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Jul 2026 | $12M | $49M | Redseed · Northzone · Geek Ventures · Inovo.vc | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Feb 2025 | $4.7M | $50M | Inovo.vc · Jean de La Rochebrochard · Goodwater Capital · Dmytro Shvets | ↗ |
Financials
Revenue, earnings and other financial measures where available. Years marked “E” are estimates.
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Yope is 120K monthly website visits, up 361.5% over the last three months. Yope's team grew 4.2% over the past year.
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Investments and acquisitions
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Investors
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Seed18 investors entered at this stage
Adventures Lab
Yury Mazanik
Digital Future
Yurii Monastyrshyn
Vital Laptenok
TA Ventures
Geek Ventures
Horizon Capital
Kolos Ventures
ICLUB Global
hi5 Ventures
Goodwater Capital
Inovo.vc
Jean de La Rochebrochard- DSDmytro Shvets
- ATAndrey Tkachenko
Northzone
Redseed
Other known investors3 additional known investors
Leon Podobedov
U.ventures
Vesna Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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