Kapwing Company Blog

The interwebs will give entrepreneurs a lot of advice when it comes to raising money, but much of this literature is written by investors rather than founders, and some popular resources are from

In 2017, I left Google to work with a friend and former co-worker on a startup idea. We named the company Hot Barber and bought the domain hotbarber.com. For two and a

My cofounder and I both worked at Google for two years as Associate Product Managers. Then, we started a content creation website called Kapwing together. When raising Kapwing’s Series A, I got

Heroku recently exposed our private database information because of a serious security vulnerability in their email service. I wanted to share this security hole with other developers and Heroku customers who might be

Kapwing’s Studio is a free image, video and GIF editor designed for modern creators. People can do simple tasks quickly and make digital media to share, teach, or entertain others. We started

I’m thrilled to announce today that we’ve partnered up with Saar Gur at CRV to grow Kapwing’s content creation platform. This Series A financing allows us to make Kapwing free

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. — September 24, 2019 10:00AM PT Kapwing, a free online image and video editing platform, announces an $11M Series A financing round led by CRV. Kapwing strives to empower a

In the venture-bloated Startup Land, it seems like every founder is trying to give away branded products for free. So how does a company leverage branded gear (“swag”) to win brand affinity? We

We started Kapwing (an online image and video editor) almost two years ago and grew the company from 2 co-founders to 12 full-time employees in the last 12 months. Our team is based

In the last two years, we've grown Kapwing from two cofounders to 13 full-time employees and secured two rounds of venture funding, but we just moved into our first office space. In this

In the world of subscription payments, service providers face ethical dilemmas on how to charge customers and set policies for their business. A large company might have the financial freedom to take the

Two months ago, I tweeted “TIL that cofounder conflict is best resolved over tacos.” A lot of founders appreciated the tweet (IndieHackers RTed), but my investors did not. A few hours later, one

Right now, YCombinator - the famous Silicon Valley startup accelerator and incubator of Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and many other tech giants - is interviewing for its Summer 2019 class. Hundreds of founders are

My cofounder and I recently decided against building an email sign in flow for our users. Our website, Kapwing, relies entirely on Google and Facebook OAuth. In my opinion, too many startups unnecessarily

As a first-time startup founder, I didn’t realize that entrepreneurs were supposed to send regular email updates to their investors after raising money. For two months after we closed our seed round

Recently, a founder asked to chat with me about SEO. During our call, the founder - whose startup is backed by a top-tier VC - said to me “I assume that you acquired