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| Feb 16, 2019 | Blockchain marketing tech landscape grows 13x in 18 months | Like the Internet, social media, and mobile before, blockchain technologies represent a significant opportunity for enterprise marketers to reduce the cost of marketing operations, create more unique customer experiences, build improved cus... |
| Feb 16, 2019 | Blockchain marketing tech landscape grows 13x in 18 months | 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!
Like the Internet, social media, and mobile befor... |
| Feb 8, 2019 | How My Life as a Musician Helped Me Close the Biggest Deal of My Career | February 8, 2019 8 min read
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I'm fresh off closing the biggest deal of my career -- and the biggest in my firm’s history, in fact. My decade of sales experience at cutting-edge c... |
| Oct 4, 2017 | Kiip expands its mobile rewards platform to Amazon’s Fire TV | Mobile rewards startup Kiip isn’t limited to mobile devices anymore.
The company is launching its first integration on Amazon’s Fire TV. Co-founder and CEO Brian Wong said Kiip was actually approached by its launch partner, the developer of... |
| Jul 13, 2017 | How game designers and marketers will exploit AI | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Games lead the way when it comes to exploiting new technologies, and that’s why we had a panel about games and artificial intelligence ... |
| May 9, 2017 | Snapchat users stay loyal, but Instagram could block its growth | U.S. millennials and Gen Zs aren’t entirely replacing their Snapchat addiction with Instagram Stories, according to a dozen studies and surveys commissioned or collected by TechCrunch.
Yet the fact that 80 percent of Instagram’s users are o... |
| May 4, 2017 | Kiip’s Clip-to-Card service lets you save rewards to loyalty cards | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip is making it easier to redeem rewards you receive through apps in real life with the launch of Clip-to-Card. Previously, when you ... |
| Dec 29, 2016 | 15 interesting startups to watch in 2017 | People are gearing up to say good riddance to 2016, and as the Earth completes another revolution around the sun, we’re all eager to try our hand at predicting the next big thing. Will virtual reality, on-demand services, and bots shine aga... |
| Dec 29, 2016 | 15 interesting startups to watch in 2017 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
People are gearing up to say good riddance to 2016, and as the Earth completes another revolution around the sun, we’re all eager to tr... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Kiip raises $12 million to further its moments-based advertising platform | Kiip announced today that it has raised a $12 million Series C round that it will use to advance its moments-based ad platform. This latest investment was from new investors North Atlantic Capital and US Cellular, along with existing firms ... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Kiip raises $12 million to further its moments-based advertising platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip announced today that it has raised a $12 million Series C round that it will use to advance its moments-based ad platform. This la... |
| May 31, 2016 | Nearly 60% of mobile gamers watch an ad or take a survey 10 times a week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
More than half of highly engaged mobile games watch video ads, complete surveys, or install apps to earn virtual in-game currency rewar... |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Kiip powers Taco Bell’s mobile loyalty program Explore | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the digital age, loyalty programs are getting an overhaul. Today’s example is an alliance between mobile rewards company Kiip and fa... |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Kiip powers Taco Bell’s mobile loyalty program Explore | In the digital age, loyalty programs are getting an overhaul. Today’s example is an alliance between mobile rewards company Kiip and fast-food chain Taco Bell, which has created a loyalty program dubbed Taco Bell Explore.
Above: Taco Bell o... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Kiip’s Wong: Mobile advertisers need to wrap more contextual data around ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile advertisers, whether they place ads inside the mobile browser or inside apps, are feeling pressure to create ads that mobile use... |
| Feb 24, 2015 | MC Hammer & Kiip are trying hard to connect with the instant-gratification set | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MC Hammer has been moving in technology circles for a long time. He remembers talking to Apple and SGI about how to put video on the In... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | Mobile Loyalty Startup Lootsie Raises $3.5M | Lootsie, one of several startups that allow developers to add reward programs to their games and other apps, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding.
Co-founder and President Brandon Werber told me that Lootsie has bee... |
| Jan 8, 2015 | Finish 3.0 Makes All Of The App’s Premium Features Free | Apple Design Award-winning slacker-productivity app Finish is announcing its biggest update in a year today with the release of version 3.0 on the App Store.
The biggest change isn’t the introduction of any major feature in particular; inst... |
| Nov 21, 2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/21/14 | Kik, Accompani, LiveAuctioneers, Veradocs, Eyeview, Marley Spoon, Bellhops, CipherCloud, Kiip, Prezi
Seed stage
Managed by Q, a smart office cleaning platform, raised $1.65 million in seed funding fromHomebrew Ventures, RRE Ventures and Sem... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | Kiip Looks Beyond Mobile Ads, Lands Strategic Funding From Verizon Ventures And Michael Lazerow | Kiip bills itself as “mobile advertising people like,” but now it’s trying to apply that model outside of advertising itself.
The startup is also announcing that it has raised an undisclosed amount of strategic funding from Verizon Ventures... |
| Nov 2, 2014 | ThriveTracker Gamifies Mood Tracking With Real World Rewards | Depression plays tricks on your mind, even when you are well. I’ve dealt with episodes of major depressive disorder since I was teenager and one thing I’ve noticed is that when I’m depressed, I find it almost impossible to remember what bei... |
| Sep 27, 2014 | How does Kiip make money? | Kiip gets paid on a cost-per-engagement basis, earning between $10M and $20M in revenue
Given the amount of time of we now spend on the Internet, which is even more of a problem thanks to the rise of smartphones, it definitely starts to fee... |
| Aug 22, 2014 | Mojio teams up with Kiip for Internet-connected smart car that can buy you a coffee | Article content
Imagine you arrive early for work, and as you park your car, a coupon pops up on your phone rewarding you with a free coffee. |
| Aug 7, 2014 | Two Tap Raises $2.7M Seed Round For Its “Shopping Cart For The Entire Internet” | Two Tap, a Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to become the “shopping cart of the entire Internet,” today announced that it has raised a $2.7 million seed round from the likes of Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Green Visor Capital, Ryan Peter... |
| Jul 6, 2014 | Mobile advertising for millennials — how to do it right | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The youngest millennials (age 18-24) rated their mobile phones as indispensable to their daily lives (96%), that’s higher than TV (54%)... |
| Jul 6, 2014 | Mobile advertising for millennials — how to do it right | The youngest millennials (age 18-24) rated their mobile phones as indispensable to their daily lives (96%), that’s higher than TV (54%), a car (80%), Internet access (88%) or their toothbrush (93%), according to a recent study from Bank of ... |
| Dec 10, 2013 | PaeDae Raises $11.6M, Looks Beyond Mobile Rewards To “User-Centric Advertising” | Mobile rewards and advertising startup PaeDae is announcing that it has raised $11.6 million in new funding.
The round is a mix of debt and equity, said founder and CEO Rob Emrich, though he declined to specify how much was debt and how muc... |
| Nov 26, 2013 | Kiip Says Its Self-Serve Platform Is Now Open To All Advertisers | Kiip just announced that it’s opening the self-service version of its ad platform to all companies globally.
Kiip, for those of you who don’t remember, is pitching mobile rewards as a way for advertisers to reach consumers at moments when t... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Why every startup should consider a multilingual strategy | 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!
For startups looking for a new competitive advant... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Why every startup should consider a multilingual strategy | For startups looking for a new competitive advantage, a multilingual presence may be the answer.
While non-native English speakers have long realized the value of pushing their products to the English-speaking market, native English speaker... |
| Sep 11, 2013 | Juengo Loyalty Platform Rewards For Actions Not Purchases | Most loyalty platforms work on the simple premise that you are rewarded with a variable number points based on the purchases you make, and you can redeem those points for additional merchandise or services. Look no further than the airlines... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Kiip Receives Strategic Investment from American Express Ventures | According to a blog post, Kiip, a San Francisco, CA-based mobile adtech company, received a strategic investment from American Express Ventures.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
American Express will help Kiip to expand into... |
| Aug 16, 2013 | Canvsly Rewards Parents For Saving Photos Of Their Kids’ Art | A new mobile app for iPhone called Canvsly wants to encourage parents to photograph, save and share their children’s artwork by snapping pictures of it with their phone. Yes, just like direct competitor Artkive, which has caught the attenti... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Kiip raises new funding from American Express | Mobile ad/reward network looks to expand into new verticals beyond gaming
Mobile ad/reward network Kiip, which provides rewards to casual mobile gamers for in-game achievements, has raised a new round of funding from American Express Ventur... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Mobile rewards startup Kiip raises funding from American Express | Kiip has made a name for itself by offering real-world rewards in games and expanding that business to all mobile apps. In recognition of that innovation, the company is announcing today that it has received an unspecified investment from A... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Announces Strategic Investment From American Express Ventures | Kiip, a startup that allows brands to connect with consumers through mobile rewards and contests, says it has received a strategic investment from American Express Ventures.
The company raised an $11 million Series B last year and announced... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Mobile rewards startup Kiip raises funding from American Express | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip has made a name for itself by offering real-world rewards in games and expanding that business to all mobile apps. In recognition ... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | TC Cribs: A Tour Of Kiip, The Motorcycle-Friendly Startup In The Heart Of San Francisco | Hello again, tech company voyeurs, and welcome to a new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the industry’s coolest companies to see what it’s really like for the smart whippersnappers who work there... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Kiip Will Power Rewards In Yahoo Japan’s Mobile Apps | Kiip, a startup that delivers real-world rewards to app users when they perform desirable tasks and reach key milestones, is announcing its integration with Yahoo Japan — marking the first time Yahoo Japan has integrated a third-party servi... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Why brands are ‘throwing good money after bad’ on mobile | SAN FRANCISCO, CA — “The agency model is broken. Agencies don’t get mobile; clients don’t get mobile; most mobile app makers don’t even get mobile,” said Jeff Bernstein, vice president at ad agency UMSF, on stage at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Pocket Change Brings Its Rewards-Focused Virtual Currency To iOS | Pocket Change says its mission is to “build the world’s first universal rewards currency,” but until now it has been limited to Android apps. Today, it’s announcing that it’s opening to iOS developers as well.
The company was founded in 201... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Launches Its Second $100K ‘Build Fund’ With Sponsorship From Pepsi | A year ago, Kiip ran a “Build Fund” contest for independent developers, offering $100,000 in prizes. Founder and CEO Brian Wong told me recently that the fund was supposed to be a one-off promotion, but this year, enough developers asked if... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Kiip Announces $100,000 Build Fund for Independent Developers | Today, mobile rewards network Kiip announced a $100,000 fund that will help developers launch their apps or games.
Ten developers will each receive $10,000 in cash plus $5,000 in services like Amazon Web Services and Localytics. They will a... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Kiip relaunches $100K Build Fund to recruit more developers into its mobile-rewards network | Kiip announced a renewal of its $100,000 Build Fund to inspire mobile app developers to create titles for its mobile-rewards network.
Above: Kiip chief executive Brian Wong.
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
The mobile-rewards firm will dole out... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Kiip relaunches $100K Build Fund to recruit more developers into its mobile-rewards network | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip announced a renewal of its $100,000 Build Fund to inspire mobile app developers to create titles for its mobile-rewards network.
A... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Agenda for Mobile Madness on March 19: Athenahealth, Timbre, Twitter, Verizon… | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We are coming down the home stretch towards Mobile Madness 2013. It’s March tomorrow (eek…I mean, yay).
Luckily the program is all set. We are going from 1:30-5:30 pm, March 1... |
| Feb 16, 2013 | A Whole New World Of Mobile Markets: Cars, Photos, TVs, Wallets And More | Editor’s note: Doug Renert is a co-founding partner of Tandem Capital, Silicon Valley’s first and largest mobile accelerator fund. Follow him on Twitter @dougrenert.
Mary Meeker explains in her oft-cited report that the world’s 1.1 billion ... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | Mobile Ad Revenues Will Top $11.4 Billion In 2013, Up 19% On 2012. India, China And Display Fuelling The Boost | The growing popularity of free mobile content — largely in the form of apps — is having a big impact on mobile advertising, the route that many developers and publishers are taking to monetize that content. Gartner has released its forecast... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Gets A Strategic Investment From Ad Giant Interpublic | Kiip just announced that it has received funding from ad holding company Interpublic.
Brian Wong, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, said the investment was actually included in the $11 million round that he announced last year, and it’s par... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Kiip Receives Investment from Interpublic Group | Kiip, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of mobile and gaming advertising platform, received an investment from global advertising holding company Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG).
The investment was a part of Kiip’s most recent round of fundi... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | LoopMe Wants Less Noise In Mobile Ads, Gets $500K Seed Round Led By Ex-AdMob MD Russell Buckley For Its Inbox Solution | Advertising has been one of the chief routes for developers and publishers to make money from apps and other mobile content, but there is (literally) a small problem: Handset screens have a finite amount of space, so too many ads feels clau... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | PaeDae Launches White-Label Gaming Prize Network | Santa Monica company PaeDae launches its new prize network for online and mobile game developers today. The best way to describe how the network works is: “It’s like a white-labeled version of Kiip, but it also includes virtual rewards too.... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | New Kiip expands beyond mobile game rewards to other apps and platforms | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip is the mobile rewards company that embeds real-world and virtual rewards so that players become more loyal to apps in an opt-in wa... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Kiip Launches Version 2 Of Its API To Move Beyond Leaderboards And Achievements Into “Moments” | Kiip, a company that allows app developers to embed both real-world and virtual rewards and achievements within their own app has announced version 2 of its API this evening, and it sets the company up to step outside of its gaming genre.
B... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | “In the Studio,” Kiip’s Courtney Guertin Keeps His Midwestern Ethic | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In the Studio” enters Q4 by welcoming someone who picked up computer sc... |
| Aug 8, 2012 | Kiip Takes Its First International Steps, Inks Reward Network Deal With UK’s Yo! Sushi | Kiip — the San Francisco-based mobile marketing startup that has created a “rewards network” in which users see offers for free goods and services instead of mobile ads — is going international. The company has signed on with the UK-based s... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Kiip Releases Consumer-Facing App for Mobile Rewards Network | Kiip, the real world rewards startup that essentially provides prizes for app usage, today introduced its new consumer-facing mobile application. The Kiip app provides consumers with a single, central location from which to collect and act ... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Kiip unveils new app for storing and redeeming rewards | Kiipsake is available now and lets users find other Kiip-enabled apps
Hot off its $11 million Series B round, in-app advertising company Kiip announced Tuesday the launch of its very own app, affectionately dubbed “Kiipsake,” which will act... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Kiip Debuts Standalone App To Find & Redeem Rewards From Over 400 Mobile Apps & Games | Kiip, the rewards-based network co-founded by former Digg employees Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin and Sequence’s Amadeus Demarzi, has just arrived on mobile. And here’s a surprise – the company went Android-first with the new app. But the iO... |
| Jul 18, 2012 | UBC grad raises $11M to expand mobile rewards company Kiip | Article content
Kiip, the mobile rewards company launched by University of BC grad Brian Wong, has raised $11 million in Series B funding.
The financing round is led by Relay Ventures and will help Kiip expand its rewards network beyond its... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Take control of your serendipitous success | 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!
This sponsored post is produced by By Brian Wong,... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Kiip gets $11M infusion to level-up | The in-app rewards network wants to go beyond games to reward everyday life
Mobile ad/reward network Kiip announced Tuesday that it has raised $11 million in a Series B round of funding led by Relay Ventures, with help from existing investo... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Take control of your serendipitous success | This sponsored post is produced by By Brian Wong, Founder and CEO of Kiip.
As I reflect on the last several years of my life, it has been a pretty wicked ride. Growing up in Vancouver and going on to create to create a truly disruptive comp... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Mobile Rewards Network Kiip Raises $11M Led By Relay Ventures, Plans Its Own ‘Kiipsake’ App | Kiip, a startup allowing brands to promote themselves in mobile apps through rewards and contests, has raised $11 million in Series B funding.
The company sells its approach as a smarter, more engaging approach to mobile ads, where develope... |
| May 16, 2012 | Mining “Happiness Moments” at Mobile-Rewards Startup Kiip | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Whatever you do, don’t tell Kiip CEO Brian Wong that he’s in the advertising business.
Yes, if you’re playing a mobile game that uses Kiip’s service, you’ll see pop-up screens... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Kiip Extends Developer Fund Deadline, Sweetens Pot With Services And Advisors | For game developers who thought about applying for the $100,000 Build Fund from rewards network Kiip but didn’t get around to it yet — good news! The deadline has been extended from today until May 30. And for those of you who weren’t plann... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Kiip Lets Any App Reward You With Real-Life Prizes | What if you won prizes for getting Likes on Instagram, listening to songs on Pandora, or making Highlight connections around town? Today Kiip expands its real-world rewards platform to allow giveaways in any type of app, not just games. Sin... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Kiip expands beyond games to rewarding fitness “moments” | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip has gained a large following of game developers who are connecting its real-world rewards network to mobile-game achievements. Whe... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Rewards Network Kiip Goes Self-Serve, Announces $100K Developer Fund | Kiip is making a big effort to recruit independent game developers today — it’s launching the self-serve version of its advertising platform, and it’s announcing a $100,000 fund to help developers build and market their Kiip-integrated game... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Kiip entices more game developers into its mobile-rewards network | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Rewards-network Kiip is about to kick off a big effort to get more game developers to use its mobile program. The company is announcing... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Kiip unveils $100k developer fund; offers self-service | Use Kiip rewards in your games, get rewarded with some cash if you make the cut
Kiip wants game developers big time. And, it's willing to pay cash to attract them.
The advertising network, which focuses on showing ads to mobile gamers when ... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Kiip entices more game developers into its mobile-rewards network | Rewards-network Kiip is about to kick off a big effort to get more game developers to use its mobile program. The company is announcing a new $100,000 independent-developer fund to get companies to use Kiip’s rewards in their games.
With Ki... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | Mobile ad startup Kiip hires Zynga’s advertising chief as COO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip is announcing today that it has hired Zynga’s ad boss Manny Anekal as chief operating officer.
San Francisco-based Kiip is a fast-... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | Zynga Loses Ad Chief Manny Anekal To Mobile Monetization Startup Kiip | Zynga’s Global Director of Brand Advertising Manny Anekal who led the company to a 233% increase in ad revenue this year is leaving to become COO of Kiip, which lets brands reward gamers with real world prizes. Anekal is a monetization rock... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Kiip announces Swarm to stage mobile game contests with big rewards | Kiip, which offers real world prizes for rewards in mobile games, is launching a new feature called Swarm for its brand advertisers. In a partnership with Disney, the first Swarm is a contest-like feature that allows Kiip to offer some very... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Kiip Swarm: Gamers Compete, Brands Sponsor Prizes, Developers Monetize | Kiip is not an ad network. It’s a mobile games reward network. Today it launches Swarm, a feature with a very unique value proposition: Let brands sponsor in-app tournaments where users win big prizes for high scores. Brands get exposure by... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Kiip announces Swarm to stage mobile game contests with big rewards | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip, which offers real world prizes for rewards in mobile games, is launching a new feature called Swarm for its brand advertisers. In... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform | Kiip and GameSalad are announcing a partnership today that could ensure lots of new mobile games will have ad-based rewards baked into them from the start.
Kiip has a reward system that gives people real-world prizes for achievements in gam... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiip and GameSalad are announcing a partnership today that could ensure lots of new mobile games will have ad-based rewards baked into ... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Guinness World Records Hooks Up With Kiip To Let Anyone With An iPhone Have A Shot At A Record | In just about one of the weirdest press releases that has come across my radar, mobile gaming rewards network Kiip and the old-school Guinness World Records (seriously) are announcing that they are teaming up today to offer mobile gamers th... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Google Is Now The Proud Owner Of Android.me | It’s not exactly Googorola-sized news, but I just noticed that Google has very recently gained ownership over the domain Android.me (not worth linking as it is currently not in use – yet?).
Now, Google may have simply asked – or forced – th... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | Mobile Has The Opportunity To Re-Think The Ad | Kleiner Perkins VC Chi-Hua Chien kicked off the “Money Matters” panel at the TechCrunch Mobile First CrunchUp with a telling understatement, “There seems to be a lot of new business models around mobile.” Indeed, what makes mobile unique as... |
| Apr 18, 2011 | How “mobile ads 2.0” will let you take control of your monetization | Editor’s Note: This discussion about mobile economy is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | Kiip’s Brian Wong On Taking Risks As Young Entrepreneur | After taking his mobile ads startup out of stealth on Monday, Kiip founder Brian Wong has a lot on his plate, mainly putting a recent $4.3 million in funding and a novel product and business model to good use. And Wong can’t even drink lega... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | UBC grad Brian Wong launches mobile gaming ad model with real life rewards | Article content
Brian Wong, the 19-year-old wunderkind and University of B.C. grad who is already on his second company startup, has scored $4 million in financing to fuel a new ad model that gives mobile game players real rewards ranging f... |
| Apr 10, 2011 | Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements | Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.
Going be... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | In-Game Ad Startup Kiip Raises $4 Million From Hummer Winblad, Others | Kiip, the in-game ads startup founded by teen entrepreneur Brian Wong, as well as Amadeus Demarzi and Courtney Guertin has just announced a $4 million Series A round. The round was lead by Omniture investor Hummer Winblad and rounded out by... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | 500 Startups and AngelPad look at Tripping | Jen O'Neal and Nate Weisiger do a live Vator Box in front of Dave McClure and Thomas Korte
As Vator Box watchers know, this show has always starred high-profile investors and CEOs who act as guest hosts/judges to analyze and give feedback t... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 10/29/10 | Appcelerator, Appmakr, BirchBox, Buddy Media, Kiip, Nomadesk, Spotlight, TxVIA, Zuberance
From the seed-stage to the late-stage, here are the most notable startup companies to raise new funding in the past week.
Appcelerator, an open source... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | $300K for Kiip | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Kiip, a San Francisco-based mobile gaming ad startup led by 19-year-old Brian Wong, has closed a $300,000 round of seed funding from an assortment of venture and angel investo... |
| Oct 27, 2010 | 19 Year Old Kiip Founder Closes 300K Angel Round For Mobile In-Game Ad Startup | We’ve learned that former Digger and teen entrepreneur Brian Wong has just wrapped up a $300K angel round for his mobile gaming ad startup Kiip. You first read about Wong when our own Mike Arrington wrote about the 19 year old being the you... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | 19-year-old UBC grad gets funding for new venture, breaking Zuckerberg's record | Article content
At 19 Vancouver’s Brian Wong has become the youngest entrepreneur to raise venture capital funding with a $200,000-plus injection of seed money to develop an advertising platform for mobile gaming.
The University Hill second... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Rethinking Some of Those Funding Success Stories | Have a great team. Pick a huge market. Build an awesome product. And boom, the financing will be yours, just like that. Except, not really.
Perhaps we do tend to glamorize those sorts of amazing funding success stories, something that can p... |
| Aug 3, 2010 | True Ventures Invests In 19 Year Old Entrepreneur Brian Wong | When Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg took venture money from True Ventures in 2005 and others he was just 21 years old. Now the firm has invested in someone even younger – 19 year old Brian Wong.
Wong founded Kiip.me (pronounced Wii-style... |
| The True Meaning of True Founder Camp | This week, we are hosting our third Founder Camp for the True Ventures portfolio. Founder Camp at True is a bi-annual gathering of all the Founders in our portfolio featuring guest speakers and discussions covering a wide range of topics fo... |
| True Founder Camp: Founders, Speakers, and Drinks afterwards | True Founder Camp brings together a remarkable set of speakers, with personal experiences and ideas that are both practical and inspiring — This year Chip Conley spoke of building a corporate culture, while bringing his company back from ne... |
| Startups Win at SXSW | In the past few years, South by Southwest has become increasingly famous for producing “winners.” These winners—Twitter (2007), Foursquare (2009) and GroupMe (2011)—can credit the festival for an early boost within the press and influencer ... |
| 10 Things To Keep In Mind While Designing A Mobile App | Article Via TargetingMantra / Image Via ShutterStock
You have a vision, inspiration and a name for your app. All you need is to get into the nitty-gritty details of designing the application. That is where your hiccups start because the nut... |
| Final days at Pier 38 | Om Malik wrote an exceptional blog post last evening, that beautifully captures the early days at Pier 38 for all of us at True. We’re sad to see Pier38 come to an end. We loved that zany, dirty, drafty place, and it’s where True committed ... |
