Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Total raised
$1M
Investors 2
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| 500 Startups | 500.co |
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 11
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| Apr 15, 2012 | With Instagram snapped up, photo-sharing apps to watch | Photo-sharing apps that are worth keeping an eye on Earlier this week, Facebook bought photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion, or a hefty $33 per user. What does this mean for other photo-sharing apps? It could mean they're valued a lot... |
| Apr 1, 2012 | TechCrunch Primer: A Crash Course In Cool Camera Apps | Let’s face it — there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try. If you’ve been mulling over which camera app deserves your love and affection, or just have no earthl... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | AOL acquires mobile photo-sharing app Hipster | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. AOL will try to add some cool to its mobile team with the just-announced acquisition of iOS and Android photo-sharing app Hipster. Hips... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | AOL acquires mobile photo-sharing app Hipster | AOL will try to add some cool to its mobile team with the just-announced acquisition of iOS and Android photo-sharing app Hipster. Hipster was launched in 2011 and is probably best known as the startup that offered a year’s worth of PBR to ... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Aol Snaps Up Hyper-Local Photosharing App Hipster | Aol (which is my employer, somehow) has picked up local photosharing app Hipster for an amount in the low seven figures, we’re hearing. The Hipster team of five will be working for the Aol mobile team out of Palo Alto, under badass Sol Lipm... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Yes, Hipster Is (Almost) Sending Someone Into Space | Ah, Hipster, the startup whose promotional ideas are either brilliant, obnoxious, or brilliantly obnoxious. This time the company, which allows you to share digital postcards, has outdone itself — it’s promising to send one of its users int... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Why Path Pissed People Off | There’s a reason why today’s news that Path was uploading its users’ entire address book to its database was stunning — all this time Path has been positioning itself as one of the good guys! … Sort of an alternative to Facebook … a kinder,... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For “Application Privacy Summit” [Guest Post] | The following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today’s revelations that select apps were uploading users’ entire address books to their databases. We blew it, we’re sorry, and we’re going to make it righ... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | Hipster Changes Its Strategy, Now Wants You To Send Digital Postcards | Do we really need another location-based photo-sharing app? Hipster, a service I’ve written about countless times, is unveiling its first open-to-all product today — and it is not, like we’ve written about and many anticipated, a local Q&am... |
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FAQ about Hipster
How much funding has Hipster raised?
Hipster has raised $1M in total across 1 funding round.
Who has invested in Hipster?
Parsers VC lists 2 investors of Hipster, among them 500 Startups.
What has the press written about Hipster?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Hipster, among them “With Instagram snapped up, photo-sharing apps to watch” (Apr 15, 2012) and “TechCrunch Primer: A Crash Course In Cool Camera Apps” (Apr 1, 2012).
Is Hipster still active?
Yes, Hipster is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 26, 2022.