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| Jun 12, 2024 | WinZO And Hike’s Court Battle Over Alleged IP Rights Violation Heats Up | SUMMARY
In an order passed last month, the Delhi High Court has directed WinZO and Hike to submit the source codes of their apps, WinZO and Rush
WinZO filed a petition under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, seeking i... |
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| Sep 5, 2020 | Gaming startup WinZO raises US$ 18M in Series B funding | WinZO was founded in 2018. The startup is one of the most pioneering gaming startups based in India whose revenue is growing at 1500%. It has also witnessed 20 million new user additions in the last 12 months. Post the declaration of lockdo... |
| Jan 17, 2018 | Data pack at Re 1: Hike launches ‘Total’ to bring next billion people online | To reach out next billion people, Instant messaging app Hike has launched Total, built by hike, a refined version of Android, that lets users access essential services such as messaging, news, recharge even without data connection.
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| Jan 16, 2018 | Hike unbundles its messaging app to reach India’s next wave of smartphone users | How do you compete with the world’s largest chat app in its strongest market?
Hike, the Indian messaging app valued at more than $1 billion, is taking a unique approach to battling WhatsApp which involves dismantling its service, layering i... |
| Nov 17, 2016 | Fresh from raising $175M, Indian chat app Hike clones Snapchat | In its first act since raising $175 million from Chinese internet giant Tencent in August, India-based messaging app Hike has become the latest to clone Snapchat.
The Tencent deal, which valued Hike at more than $1 billion, may have raised ... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | India’s WhatsApp rival Hike raises $175M led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation | India has a new tech unicorn. Hike, a four-year-old messaging app, today announced that it has closed $175 million in funding led by new investors Chinese internet giant Tencent and manufacturing firm Foxconn. The Series D round values the ... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | India’s Hike Messenger in Unicorn club, raises $175m led by Tencent, Foxconn | Premium
India-based messaging platform Hike Messenger has raised $175 million in a Series D round of funding led by Tencent Holdings Ltd and Foxconn Technology Group.
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| Aug 16, 2016 | India’s messaging app Hike raises $175M to battle Facebook’s WhatsApp | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jan 12, 2016 | Dropbox, Wordpress founders back instant messaging app Hike | Instant messaging app Hike has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Quora founder Adam D'Angelo and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.
Senior Dropbox executives Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi also participated in this round, Hike s... |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Silicon Valley tech veterans invest in Indian chat app Hike Messenger | Premium
Homegrown chat application Hike Messenger has secured an undisclosed amount in funding from several tech veterans of Silicon Valley, according to a statement.
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| Jan 28, 2015 | Indian Messaging App Hike Rolls Out Free Voice-Calling Before WhatsApp | Just three weeks after announcing the acquisition of Zip Phone, India-based messaging app Hike has updated its Android app with a voice-calling feature. When Hike bought Y Combinator-backed Zip Phone, which allows users to make Wi-Fi-enable... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Indian Messaging App Hike Acquires YC-Backed Zip Phone | Hike, a messaging app based in India, announced today that it has purchased Zip Phone, a Y Combinator-backed startup, for an undisclosed amount. This is Hike’s first acquisition.
Zip Phone, which launched last year and was founded by Indian... |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Как азиатские клоны Uber, Spotify и Amazon зарабатывают миллионы долларов на своём бизнесе | Шамиль Курамшин, аналитик департамента торговых операций ИК «Фридом Финанс», составил для ЦП список успешных азиатских стартапов, скопировавших идеи у Uber, Spotify, Amazon и других западных сервисов.
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| Aug 28, 2014 | hike Raises $65M in Funding | hike, the Indian free messaging app, raised $65m in funding.
Backers included New York-based investment firm Tiger Global Management and Bharti SoftBank.
The company intends to use the funds to expand the user base of the app.
Led by Kavin ... |
| Aug 27, 2014 | Bharti SoftBank’s P2P instant messenger Hike raises $65M from Tiger Global, others | Hike, the instant messaging (IM) app service from BSB (Bharti Softbank- the joint venture between Bharti Group and Japan’s Softbank), has secured $65 million (Rs 400 crore) in funding from a group of overseas investors led by Tiger Global M... |
| Aug 27, 2014 | Home Grown Mobile Messenger Hike Raises $65M Led By Tiger Global | Hike, India’s home grown free cross platform instant mobile messaging app has raised USD 65 million (around Rs. 400 Cr) from foreign investors according to ET report. The round was led by New-York based Tiger Global and have acquired minori... |
| Apr 6, 2014 | Hike Closes $14M Funding | Hike, a New Delhi, India-based mobile messaging app, closed a $14m funding.
The investor was BSB, a joint venture between Bharti and SoftBank Corp.
Led by Kavin Bharti Mittal, Creator, Hike Hike provides a free cross-platform messaging app ... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/4/14 | 2can, OpenFin, SoFi, RABBL, Friendsurance, Bloglovin, Imgur, Boundary, Clari, Apploop, Cytox, Krablr
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Online payments company PayStand raised $1 million in seed funding from Cervin Ventures, Serra Ventures, Central Coast Angels, a... |
| Apr 2, 2014 | Indian Mobile Messaging App Hike Raises $14M In New Funding From BSB | Hike, a cross-platform messaging app based in India, announced that it has received $14 million in new funding from BSB, a joint venture between Hike’s founder and SoftBank Corp. Hike first launched in December 2012 and received $7 million ... |
| May 18, 2013 | How Hike, India’s Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys | It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its five million registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the b... |
| May 12, 2013 | Mobile Messaging Apps: A Primer | The global mobile messaging app space is the new social battleground. Startups that would have had little chance of unseating Facebook’s dominance on the web are attacking Zuckerberg’s empire by refocusing social networking around the mobil... |
| Sep 28, 2012 | Meet Hike: the Indian messaging startup going after WhatsApp | As Korea gave birth to Kakaotalk, Japan to Line, and China to WeChat, an Indian startup is looking to have its own group messaging smash hit with the new Hike app. For the moment, Hike is Android-only, but versions for iOS, Windows Phone, B... |
| Sep 28, 2012 | Meet Hike: the Indian messaging startup going after WhatsApp | As Korea gave birth to Kakaotalk, Japan to Line, and China to WeChat, an Indian startup is looking to have its own group messaging smash hit with the new Hike app. For the moment, Hike is Android-only, but versions for iOS, Windows Phone, B... |
| Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [15 August – 20 August] | In a bid to firm up market share against rival Amazon, Alibaba reportedly held discussions to acquire online marketplace ShopClues, with further plans to merge Paytm with ShopClues. The week also marked rumours of a possible merger of Snapd... |
| Hike Adds Gaming To HikeLand, But Will Its Latest Revenue ‘Experiment’ Come Good? | Hike, the New Delhi-headquartered unicorn which came to prominence for developing a P2P messaging platform back in 2012, has brought its latest offering, a mobile-first virtual world named HikeLand out of early preview.
The company’s founde... |
| Hike Acquires YC Backed Zip Phone, Plans To Launch Free App-Based Voice Calling soon | Hike messenger, internet based cross platform instant messaging service, has acquired US-based voice-calling company – Zip Phone. This first acquisitions of Hike will enable it to broaden its portfolio in the internet-based communication sp... |
| Hike Launches AR-Based Stickers In Seven Vernacular Languages | Following the lines of augmented reality emoji creator apps, such as Apple’s Animoji and Samsung’s AR emoji, homegrown messaging platform, Hike, on Saturday, came up with its own version of this new age technology, which enables users to cr... |
| Funding Galore: A Look At Startups That Raised Funding This Week | The week went pretty interesting for the Indian Startup ecosystem, with biggest news of the week remain to be Ratan Tata investing in Snapdeal. A lot of funding activity took place during this week, have a quick look into it.
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| 2016 In Review: Top 10 Most Funded Startups Of The Year | 2016 has been heralded as the year startups stopped paying attention to inflated valuation and started paying attention to sustainable business models. Course correction and managing expectations were the watchwords as January slid into Jun... |
| Hike to raise $14 Mn funding, announces hike direct cash transfers to fool around on 1st April | Instant messaging app Hike will be raising another $14 Mn funding round from Bharti SoftBank Holdings, according to ET. “The fresh infusion of funds will be used to scale up Hike and enable it to become agile enough to dominate the instant ... |
| HikeLand Looks To Spruce Up Virtual Hangouts, But Content Will Determine Success | As unicorns among Indian startups go, Hike is a company of one. It’s the only social media and communication platform to breach the vaunted $1 Bn valuation mark. But many still question — arguably with good reason — whether Hike has indeed ... |
| Exclusive: SoftBank-backed Hike raises funds for Web3 game | CryptoGamingInvestmentsNewsStartups
Deepti Sri · 2d ago · 2 min readExclusive: SoftBank-backed Hike raises funds for Web3 game
Hike, a former messaging platform and local rival to WhatsApp, has raised an undisclosed sum in a fresh funding r... |
