Kicksend

http://kicksend.com/

Last activity: 21.07.2020

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Order photo prints & share albums with our app! Available on iPhone & Android.
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2.35K

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Overview

Location

United States, California, Mountain View

Phone

+1 650-336-5817

Total raised

$1.8M

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 23

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Feb 4, 2014	Kicksend, The Mobile-First Photo Printing App, Crosses Pond To UK, France And Germany	Y Combinator alum Kicksend started life out as a way to share large files — another file sharing app, if you will — but has since put the focus on making it easy to get photos taken on your smartphone printed. Photos ordered via the app are...
Oct 29, 2013	Kicksend (YC S11) lets you print photos to your local Walmart, now making $150K/mo in rev, growing 30% month over month	Mobile photography startup Kicksend has spent the last year inking partnerships with brick-and-mortar retail chains like Walgreens, Target and CVS so it can bring its promise of dead-simple photo sharing and printing to the masses. Now it ...
Oct 28, 2013	YC Alum Kicksend Inks Mobile Photo Printing Deal With Walmart	Mobile photography startup Kicksend has spent the last year inking partnerships with brick-and-mortar retail chains like Walgreens, Target and CVS so it can bring its promise of dead-simple photo sharing and printing to the masses. Now it l...
Jun 15, 2013	Kicksend (YC S11) featured on the Today Show: Easy high quality one-hour photo prints for Dad this weekend	Try Kicksend now
May 14, 2013	Open Garden Gets Google Glass To Connect To Its Mesh Network, Asks Google To Make It Available To All	Open Garden, the San Francisco-based startup that allows Android, Windows and Mac users to create mesh networks between their devices to share Internet connections, today announced that it has managed to get Google Glass to connect to its n...
Jan 16, 2013	Hack Design Teaches Design To Hackers, Has Already Signed Up Over 20K Developers	Most developers are famously not great designers, but some of the best products come from teams where developers know a bit about design and the designers know a bit about what the developers do. Hack Design wants to get developers up to sp...
Dec 5, 2012	Kicksend (YC S11) launches version 3.0, can print from your smartphone to 15,000 Walgreens stores in one hour	★ Print to Family – Print photos for yourself and the people you love. You choose the prints, they choose their favorite local store for easy pickup. Gorgeous, high-quality prints in an hour! (USA only) ★ Over 15,000 Stores – We’ve partner...
Dec 4, 2012	YC-Backed Kicksend Makes It Easier To Share Photos With Friends And Family, Now Offers Prints At Target And CVS	Y Combinator alum Kicksend is part of a growing group of companies that are taking digital items and helping users score physical goods — in this case, printing out digital photos that they’ve shot and stored on their mobile devices. Since ...
Sep 5, 2012	Kicksend Users Can Now Order Prints At Walgreens From Its iPhone And Android Apps	When Walgreens rolled out its “Print to Walgreens” feature last month, media-sharing startup Kicksend was one of a select group to integrate it into its iPhone app. Now all Kicksend users will be able to print out photos from any of 8,000 W...
Jul 19, 2012	Is Mobile Photo Sharing Still Broken? Kicksend Thinks So	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It’s really, really hard for people immersed in the technology world to remember a day when they weren’t so savvy about gadgets and software and the Interwebs. To you and me, ...
May 29, 2012	Weirded out about photo-sharing and privacy? Try Kicksend for Android	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Yesterday, we brought you news of a boneheaded teenager whose house was robbed due to indiscreet photo sharing. Today, we bring you a c...
May 29, 2012	Kicksend Releases An Android App For Sharing All Your Photos, Videos, and More	Last December, file-sharing startup Kicksend went mobile, with an iPhone app designed to enable easy sharing of photos and videos that are captured from your mobile device. Now, six months later, the startup is taking that same functionalit...
May 15, 2012	Share batches of photos discretely and free of charge with the all-new Kicksend	“Oversharing can happen way too easily,” said my friend, a new parent. “I’m guessing when [my daughter] is 16, she won’t want whatever person is trying to date her to be able to stalk her through time. ‘Hey girl, I liked that swimsuit you w...
Dec 16, 2011	Kicksend Goes Mobile With A New iPhone App For Instant, Asynchronous Sharing Of Big Files	Last we covered Kicksend in November, the Y Combinator-incubated web file-sharing tool for the non-technical crowd, had just raised $1.8 million in funding from True Ventures, with participation from Digital Garage, SV Angel, Start Fund, an...
Nov 30, 2011	Kicksend Raises Seed Funding	Kicksend, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of a service for the real-time sharing of large files, recently closed its seed funding. The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from Digital Garage, SV Angel, Start Fund and Jack ...
Nov 3, 2011	Kicksend Grabs $1.8 Million From True Ventures, SV Angel & More For Dead Simple File Sharing	In August, Y Combinator grad Kicksend launched in beta to make sending and sharing large files easy as pie, especially for the non-technical crowd. (Read our initial coverage here.) Since then, founders Pradeep Elankumaran and Brendan Lim t...
Aug 23, 2011	Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup	This afternoon Y Combinator kicked off the summer session of Demo Day, the twice-a-year event where the prestigious startup incubator showcases its latest batch of companies in front of a throng of investors. And wow, was this one a doozy. ...
Aug 8, 2011	Y Combinator-Backed Kicksend Launches In Beta To Make Sharing Big Files A Breeze	When it comes to file sharing, there is no shortage of tools and services to help you transfer your files, big and small. There’s the old tried and true approach on email, or using VOIP services like Skype, or cloud-based services like Drop...
	Applauze and the New App-Commerce	Applauze Founder Kiran Bellubbi’s take on Mobile UX is, “Your first experience has to be efficient, the second one useful and third one profound.” Our first experience with Applauze (in July 2013) simply blew us away: Our second experienc...
	Welcoming Kicksend to the True Family	We are excited to announce True’s recent investment in file sharing company Kicksend. Kicksend is the simplest way to send and share files online. Users can simply log-in to their account on the web, mobile, or desktop application and then...
	Connecting people never goes out of style	Connection is an essential part of the human experience. And since we don’t often have the luxury of face-to-face contact with our friends, family and business associates, communications has become one of the most important resources in our...
	Smile! Photo sharing made easy (again)	At True, we talk a lot about investing in Founders rather than companies. And we are passionately committed to partnering with our Founders to help them realize the ultimate potential of their companies. So when Narendra Rocherolle, Founder...

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FAQ about Kicksend

How much funding has Kicksend raised?

Kicksend has raised $1.8M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Kicksend?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Kicksend, among them “Kicksend, The Mobile-First Photo Printing App, Crosses Pond To UK, France And Germany” (Feb 4, 2014) and “Kicksend (YC S11) lets you print photos to your local Walmart, now making $150K/mo in rev, growing 30% month over month” (Oct 29, 2013).

Is Kicksend still active?

Yes, Kicksend is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.