Kik

Media 📍 Waterloo, Canada 👥 51-200 employees 💰 $120.5M raised 📅 Founded 2009

Kik was founded in 2009, when a small group of University of Waterloo students decided to build a company that would shift the center of computing from the PC to the phone. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company now has more than 100 employees working on Kik, a chat app that lets users connect with people, services,

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📊 Company Overview

Sector

Media

Country

Canada

Employees

51-200

Total Raised · Venture

$120.5M

Founded

2009

Cloud

AWS

CDN

Fastly

Email

Google Workspace

☁️ Cloud Infrastructure

AWS Detected Cloud Provider

Detected via HTTP headers

Workspace	Google Workspace
CDN	Fastly

Detected via DNS records and HTTP response headers as of 2026-06-13.

💰 Estimated Cloud Spend

$600K – $2M / year on AWS

🛠 Tech Stack & Marketing

Ad Platforms	🔒 Subscribers only
Analytics & CRM	🔒 Subscribers only
CMS / Platform	🔒 Subscribers only
Frontend Stack	🔒 Subscribers only

Detected from Kik's public homepage as of 2026-06-13.

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