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About
Kik launched out of the University of Waterloo in 2009 as a mobile messenger that did not require a phone number, and became widely used by North American teenagers. In 2017 Kik Interactive raised nearly US$100M in a token distribution event for Kin, a cryptocurrency meant to underpin a decentralised ecosystem of digital services inside the app — the subject of Tanner Philp's TechTO FintechTO talk that November. The SEC sued over the token sale. Kik announced it would shut the messenger down in September 2019, then reversed course when MediaLab acquired it that October; MediaLab runs the app today.
Backers
Raised venture funding before the 2017 token sale; the messenger was acquired by MediaLab in October 2019
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Quick answers
What is Kik?
A mobile messaging app founded by University of Waterloo students in 2009 that lets people message without exchanging phone numbers.
What happened to Kik and Kin?
Kik Interactive raised close to US$100M selling the Kin token in 2017 and was sued by the SEC over it. The messenger was sold to MediaLab in October 2019 after an announced shutdown was reversed.