Giphy was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, US
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Key People/Management at Giphy
Adam Leibsohn
Chief Operating Officer
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 | a year 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 News and Updates
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’…
January 17, 2018
Giphy builds transparent GIF library for Instagram Stories
Instagram now lets some users slap background-less GIFs sourced from Giphy onto their Instagram Stories. Rolling out for wider testing with a Giphy-branded design, the new GIF sticker engine could further differentiate Instagram Stories from Snapchat, which has yet to embrace the animation trend. R…
October 19, 2017
The Phoenix Suns were secretly replaced by robots. Here's the proof.
Are there robots secretly infiltrating the NBA? People have fears about AI and our inability to fully understand its capabilities, but what if it's already made its way into sports?
Well, friends, it is very possible that an entire basketball team has been replaced by robots.
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August 18, 2017
Hackers just sent us practically all of HBO's social media passwords
The leaks just keep coming.
The hackers responsible for the massive breach of HBO haven't let up, and reached out to Mashable to share their latest exploits. And while the latest data dump doesn't include any Game of Thrones spoilers, it definitely contains some information that the network wouldn…
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