KickApps Corporation

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KickApps is an award-winning social publishing platform that helps the world's most recognizable brands (including NBC Universal, American Express, Scripps Network, Hearst , HBO, and Cox Television) connect with their customers and fans. KickApps was acquired by KIT digital in January 2011.

About KIT digital, Inc.
KIT digital (NASDAQ: KITD) is a premium provider of end-to-end video management software and related services. The KIT Platform, the company's cloud-based video asset management system, enables enterprise, media & entertainment and network operator clients to produce, manage and deliver multi-screen socially-enabled video experiences to audiences wherever they are. KIT digital services more than 2,300 clients in 50+ countries including some of the world's biggest brands, such as Airbus, The Associated Press, BBC, Best Buy, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Disney-ABC, FedEx, Google, HP, MTV, News Corp, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, Universal Studios, Verizon, Vodafone and Volkswagen.

KIT digital maintains executive offices in New York and its operational headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with offices in 21 countries around the world. Visit the company at www.kitd.com or follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KITdigital.

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Location

United States, New York

Employees

51-200

Total raised

$25M

Founded date

2005

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Funding Rounds 2

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Aug 13, 2007	Funding round	$11M

Mentions in press and media 41

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Jun 21, 2011	Oracle Gets More Social and Takes on Adobe with FatWire Acquisition	Oracle announced today that it will acquire FatWire. Financial details were not disclosed. FatWire bills itself as customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums, analytics, digital asset ...
Mar 21, 2011	Is a “huge wave” of M&As, financing deals about to hit Silicon Valley?	Investment banks are scrambling to open branches and make their presence known in the Silicon Valley area because they are expecting a “huge wave” of mergers and acquisitions and financing deals in tech and media over the next two years, Ke...
Jan 31, 2011	KIT Digital acquires three startups for $77M	KickApps, Kewego and Kyte all exit via acquisition; mobile and social video looks bigger than ever KIT Digital, provider of cloud-based video solutions for the enterprise, announced Monday that it has separately acquired New York City-based...
Jan 28, 2011	Enterprise Startup Spotlight: Buddy Media	In its own words, Buddy Media offers “power tools for Facebook.” Its service is, in essence, a content management system for Facebook geared towards the needs of large organizations. For example, Starwood Hotels uses Buddy Media to manage F...
Nov 7, 2010	IBM Bakes Analytics Into Lotus Connections 3.0	IBM‘s obsession with analytics made its way into social networking today with the announcement of Lotus Connections 3.0. New analytics driven features include recommendations of other users to connect with based on shared interests and cont...
Nov 2, 2010	Why Oracle Bought E-Commerce Company ATG	Today Oracle announced its intent to acquire e-commerce company ATG. In addition to typical online retail features, ATG offers analytics, click-to-call and call tracking features that will compliment Oracle’s own offerings. Forrester‘s Sure...
Sep 15, 2010	New Logistics: Web-Based Tools for International Marketing	While the logistics of moving goods and information around the globe is rapidly changing, marketing to international audiences, for the most part, is little different from marketing domestically. Abe Burmeister, co-founder of apparel compan...
Aug 3, 2010	KickApps Adds Full CMS to Its Social Media Management Platform	KickApps announced the new version of its enterprise social media management platform today. Previously, KickApps integrated its social features into existing CMS platforms, but now the company is attempting to replace other CMSs altogether...
Jul 20, 2010	Enterprises Are Leading the Point-and-Click App Creation Revolution	In the read/write era, enterprise technology has been playing catchup with the consumer sector, integrating social networking, wikis and activities streams into business-grade applications. But that hasn’t always been the case – look at the...
Jul 1, 2010	Amidst Confusion Over Web Video, the Porn Industry Emerges as Canary in the Coalmine	A Google (GOOG) engineer is defending YouTube's use of Flash on the official YouTube API blog today, saying that HTML5 just isn't sufficient to replace Adobe's (ADBE) much-maligned video software. But Google's top brass has been promoting H...
Jul 1, 2010	KickApps Partners with IBM to Bring Social Features to WebSphere Commerce	KickApps, a provider of enterprise-grade hosted social media platforms, announced the release of KickApps for IBM‘s WebSphere Commerce today. Websphere Commerce users will have the ability to integrate KickApps social media features into th...
Jun 24, 2010	KickApps Launches Facebook App Development Suite	White label social networking startup KickApps has launched a new development suite that aims to simplify the Facebook app development for marketers, brand managers and developers. The KickApps App Studio now allows anyone, including non-pr...
May 11, 2010	KickApps And Adobe Partner To Create Customizable Flash-Based Media Player	White label social networking startup KickApps is partnering with Adobe to release an Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) Flash-based media player. Users of the cloud-based OSMF App Studio can create highly customized, full featured media pl...
Jan 21, 2010	Another AOL Veteran Jumps Ship, Lands At KickApps	Social software startup KickApps this morning announced that it has appointed Grant Cerny as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing. Prior, Cerny spent 5.5 years working for AOL, most recently as Vice President, Entertainment, Living &a...
Apr 15, 2009	DIY Social Network GROU.PS Adds Ranking System To Assign Privileges To Contributors	GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration is launching a new tool, ActivityRank Pipelines. The feature is a point and reward system that lets moderators of a social network measure and rank members’ ...
Mar 30, 2009	Kickapps Embraces Facebook Connect And OpenID	Even white label social networks like Kickapps realize there is no use competing with the viral social networking power of Facebook and MySpace. Instead, Kickapps now wants to ride on their coattails to engage clients in using their platfor...
Nov 25, 2008	KickApps raises another $14M to build social networks	KickApps, a startup that enables customers to build their own social networks, has raised $14 million in a third round of funding. As every company in the world tries to add “social” features to their web site, the number of “white label” s...
Nov 25, 2008	$14M C Round for KickApps	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints KickApps, the New York-based maker of a white-label social networking platform that other Web publishers can plug into their sites, has raised a $14 million Series C venture r...
Nov 25, 2008	KickApps raised $14 million in new funds	White-label social network raises a total of $31 million KickApps, a popular of white-label social networking solutions, raised more than $13 million in a Series C round of funding. The round was led by North Atlantic Capital, with particip...
Nov 25, 2008	KickApps Actually Raises $14 Million In Series C Round	Yesterday, word leaked out that white-label social networking startup KickApps raised another round of funding. But the amount reported by PEHub (“over $13 million”), based on an old Reg. D filing at the SEC, wasn’t exactly precise. It wasn...
Nov 17, 2008	ONEsite Launches Proprietary Social Ad Platform	White label social networking software maker ONEsite is launching its very own advertising platform InteractAd today, essentially declaring traditional online advertising is past its prime and that it’s time for social advertising to take i...
Sep 24, 2008	KickApps Launches Drag-and-Drop Advertising Service	KickApps, a company that provides on-demand social media applications that enable web publishers to monetize online audiences announced today that it’s trying to make it easier for website owners to add video advertising to their own videos...
Sep 17, 2008	Magnitude Information Systems, random ergonomics company, invests in Kiwibox, teen social network	Kiwibox.com, an online magazine aimed at teenagers, is a remnant of the dot-com days. Unheralded and mostly undifferentiated, it launched in 1999 and somehow managed to slog its way through the bubble’s pop. In August, it relaunched with a ...
Sep 15, 2008	LiveBar Adds A Little Strip Of Community To Any Site	LiveWorld is a publicly traded company that’s been around since 1996 and is best known for its white labeled social networks. These are online communities that LiveWorld helps clients build up around their existing brands, and they often ta...
Aug 28, 2008	Close Encounters Of The Republican Kind: McCainSpace Relaunches	Why is it that both political campaigns feel the need to have their own social networks. Barack Obama has my.barackobama.com and John McCain has McCainSpace, which just relaunched with a new design from KickApps after failing massively on i...
Jul 15, 2008	KickApps Brings Userplane’s Chat to its Social Networks	KickApps, the white label social networking platform, has partnered with Userplane to bring Userplane’s chat technology to KickApps’ affiliates. KickApps will integrate Userplane’s Webchat and Webmessenger functionality, though it won’t use...
Jun 25, 2008	Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building	Digg competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social media”. Users can now set up Mixx community sites on their own subdomains (see ours here). Administrators have the...
Jun 16, 2008	Webjam Introduces Portable Mini Feeds, Friends Lists	http://www.webjam.com/techcrunch/~ShowBadge?title=markmhx%20on%20Webjam&location=true&activity=true&webjams=true&friends=true Widgets are the most consumer-friendly means toward data portability. Users who want to establish ...
May 20, 2008	Userplane Gets Into Video Hosting	Userplane, the company behind Webchat and a number of other online communication services, has introduced a new video app dubbed “Mediaplayer”. The free white-label app will allow web publishers to add hosted video uploads to their sites un...
Apr 24, 2008	Create Your Own YouTube, Pray You Can Make Money	“YouTube sold for $1.6 billion. How much will you sell yours for?” That’s the over-optimistic hook being used by StartYourTube to entice people into setting up branded video sharing sites on its white label platform. StartYourTube does exac...
Mar 14, 2008	AOL On A Bender – KickApps May Be Next Acquisition	AOL, a company that is supposedly on the block themselves, seems to be on somewhat of an acquisition bender lately. In addition to a number of smaller purchases like Yedda and Goowy, and not a day after the announced $850 million acquisitio...
Jan 31, 2008	KickApps Wades into Ning Territory with Version 3.0	KickApps is implementing a lot of new features and capabilities with its newest release, version 3.0, which debuts today. For a complete list of the improvements, you can check out the company’s official release (see the summary in the seco...
Jan 31, 2008	KickApps’ DIY social networks features get upgrade: Insert community here	KickApps, a company that let’s you create your own social network, is releasing a sweeping update today. It is trying to give you every feature of a large social network like Facebook, but in a way that you can build for your own community....
Jan 17, 2008	KickApps Publishes API Kit, Adopts Facebook and OpenSocial Platform Standards	KickApps, provider of “white label” social networking functionality for existing websites, has been making strides to open up its hosted platform to both web and application developers. Webmasters who want to integrate KickApps’ social netw...
Aug 13, 2007	KickApps Has Raised $11 Million In Second Round Funding	New York based KickApps is a user-generated video and social networking website that has gained popularity through the ease of use and creation of widgets. These widgets have found themselves on MySpace, BET, Vibe.com, and Genesis-Space.
Aug 13, 2007	KickApps, social network builder, raises $11 million	KickApps, which enables publishers to quickly add social network functions to their offerings, has just raised $11 million in its second round of financing. Thanks to companies like Ning, PeopleAggregator, Me.com, and KickApps, the creation...
Jun 20, 2007	KickApps: White Label Social Networking That Delivers	KickApps has continued to grow in the face of strong competition from high profile startups such as Ning. TechCrunch first covered KickApps in July 2006. I had the opportunity to speak with CEO Alex Blum this week. Blum was previously Presi...
Oct 27, 2006	VSocial Pitches White Label Video Solutions	If you had stopped by video sharing site VSocial before today you may not have thought much of the service, its sparse UI made it look like just one more also-ran. This week the site relaunched and is making a serious play to monetize custo...
Jul 12, 2006	KickApps social networking software launches	KickApps, a white label social networking software service, launched publicly today. Think of it as a way for any web site to add functionality similar to MySpace or YouTube. After looking at the way that the system works, I can say that Ki...
	O "aplitite" insaciável por aplicativos	Esta seria a tradução mais literal para o slogan do evento digiday:APPS, que aconteceu em Nova York em 12 de agosto: The Insatiable App-etite for Apps! A holding binacional SocialSmart (sediada em SP e NY), investidora e diretora do Startup...

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FAQ about KickApps Corporation

When was KickApps Corporation founded?

KickApps Corporation was founded in 2005.

How much funding has KickApps Corporation raised?

KickApps Corporation has raised $25M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has KickApps Corporation raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of KickApps Corporation, among them a funding round of $11M on Aug 13, 2007.

What has the press written about KickApps Corporation?

Parsers VC has collected 41 articles mentioning KickApps Corporation, among them “Oracle Gets More Social and Takes on Adobe with FatWire Acquisition” (Jun 21, 2011) and “Is a “huge wave” of M&As, financing deals about to hit Silicon Valley?” (Mar 21, 2011).

Is KickApps Corporation still active?

Yes, KickApps Corporation is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 12, 2025.