Kapwing Company Blog

How does a startup get to their first 1000 YouTube subscribers and leverage YouTube to grow a SaaS business? In this article, I share our journey for other founders considering YouTube as an organic growth channel for their startup.

If you're a software developer in 2020, you're likely familiar with the term "master" as the name of the primary branch of development in Git. One recent movement in the tech industry has

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

Enable your team or organization with simple, collaborative multimedia software. Work together in shared digital workspaces to get more work done faster. Make images, videos, and GIFs that are high-quality and up-to-date. Perfect for media teams, marketing orgs, schools, and more.

I'm the cofounder of a startup called Kapwing, a popular website for making videos, images, and GIFs. When we launched two years ago, we added a brand watermark to every clip made on

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

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

Hello world! My name’s Grace. I’m a rising senior studying public health at Johns Hopkins University, and I love creating videos, adventuring, laughing at memes, and telling stories. That’s how

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

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