Giphy was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, US
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Key People/Management at Giphy
Adam Leibsohn
COO
Jace Cooke
Co-Founder
Alex Chung
Co-Founder
Nam Nguyen
Director, Business Development
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Giphy Office Locations
Giphy has an office in New York
New York, US (HQ)
416 W 13th St
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Giphy Financials and Metrics
Summary Metrics
Founding Date | 2012 |
Total Funding | $151 m |
Latest funding size | $72 m |
Time since last funding | 2 years ago |
Investors | General Catalyst Partners, China Media Capital (CMC), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Betaworks, RRE Ventures, CAA Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Quire, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), IVP (Institutional Venture Partners) |
Giphy's latest funding round in October 2016 was reported to be $72 m. In total, Giphy has raised $151 m. Giphy's latest valuation is reported to be $600 m.
Giphy Financials
Market valuation | 600 m |
- Source: The Wall Street Journal
Giphy Operating Metrics
Giphy's Unique Visitors was reported to be 81.8 m in Jul, 2016. Giphy's Daily Active Users was reported to be 300 m in Oct, 2017. Giphy's Monthly Viewers was reported to be 250 m in Jul, 2017.
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Giphy Online and Social Media Presence
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Giphy News and Updates
June 08, 2018
How Giphy Is Turning Six-Second Videos Into Seven-Figure Ad Deals
The five-year-old startup hasn't been firmly "pre-revenue"--until now.
May 18, 2018
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is another testament to the brilliance of Mike Schur
The frenzy over Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s cancelation at Fox and subsequent pickup by NBC may have caught some corners of the industry off guard. But it shouldn’t have.
Creator Mike Schur, who is currently helming The Good Place and also worked on The Office and Parks and Recreation, is one of the most…
May 13, 2018
GIF project highlights women and minority filmmakers
Italian filmmaker Elena Rossini is shedding some much-needed light on women and minority creators with her project We Are Film Directors, which just highlighted its 100th filmmaker: Rossini herself.
With We Are Film Directors, Rossini is populating the popular online GIF database Giphy with GIFs o…
March 09, 2018
Giphy held talks to raise a massive new funding round
We’re hearing from a number of sources that Giphy, the big platform for hosting GIFs that also runs a GIF keyboard, held talks to raise a huge new financing round — though it’s not clear if it ever crossed the finish line. Read More
February 20, 2018
Snapchat taps Giphy to let you add animated GIF stickers to your photos and videos
Snapchat is getting a massive dose of GIFs from today with the news that the app will be integrating with Giphy’s gargantuan library of animated stickers. Now when you take a photo or video, you’ll be able to add a funky GIF sticker to your creation, which you can scale according to your preferences…
February 02, 2018
There’s no need to watch the Super Bowl—the NFL has already won Giphy
While I’m personally not interested in sports, I have no doubt that a large contingency of Americans are actually invested in who wins the Super Bowl this weekend. For my money, though, it’s not the Philadelphia Eagles or the New England Patriots who will emerge victorious—it’s the NFL itself. That’…
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