Photo application and video target adults with dozens of today, so those who share the traction, so those who show the traction with 18-paced to catch an investor searching on Instagram or tiktok.
In the latest example, photo-sharing photo-shares Yopethat allows you to share the remaining images for a private group, say that it has made 2.2 million active users or 800,000 active users each day, with 30x growth in the past six months. And perhaps one of the more important metrics very The fickle market, the company currently declares 40% of the day retention – which 40% The user still uses the app seven days after installing.
Everything that translates to an activity that does not exist between VCS.
TechCrunch has been studied and confirmed that the beginning at the end of Jope is now picked up the seeds of $ 4.65 million at $ 50 million. The capital of the water leading, with the Inovo VC and redseed redseed, together angels that include Jean de la Rochebrochard; Greg Tkacachenko, selling face animated company AI factory for Snapchat in 2020; Restore Application Co-founder (and a16z Scout) Dima Shevts; And Google Andreer Tkacacachek.
“Yope driving him / VCS is slightly crazy,” one source that tells techcrroch, which adds that something can show by “new instagram.”
App
Simple Yope interface: You take photos in the app, or you select one of the libraries and send it to the conversation of the group you join or create your own. There, you will also see the pictures indicated by another group member, where you can respond to the image and talk to the rest of the group. Each group also has a wall, a feature used by Yope using the study of machines to cut pictures and crawl images, join images that are collected in an unlimited photo collage.
To promote the involvement, Yope has taken another social network inspiration, in a good and bad way. A Lost Lock screen allows you to view the latest photos of a group. Straking feature supports users to be sent. Features called Recap with the shown image – equal to Google Photos and Apple Photos apps. Onboarding first, app creates Opting Opening on the in the wearing, that is can.
The company has rebuilt the dresador program for driving awareness and install, with a user salary that sends the application on other platforms like Tiktok and Instagram. Yope said the video made of the Ambassador had more than 56 million display. The company declined to talk about the videos of the video drives, but most 70-80% of the user who came through him to the app.
Baham Isalau, Yope CEO and Co -under, said Yope wanted to reach 50 million users active each year in the future.
It also plans to feature more. This has yet to open the video, but this is at work, says the company. Another is a trigger to check each day that will poincase the user to check the group, and see the photo you sent, and react to them. This company also wants to create a more interactive wall by allowing the user to increase stickers, Cat Doodles, and Zoom to view the new day, the month, and to add a new format with the lock screen time.
You also want to launch a family group format to bring the application of the application of Gen-Z user core: Now, the user age of the user is 18.
When the focus will bring more users, Yope also think about your income, starting with subscription plans.
Highway to grow
Yope, app, may have recently, but the startup yope has been too much, and it does not start. Founded on 2021 by Ishalau and Paul Rudkouski – who has learned together at the Belus’s university at the Minsk – teamwork for many years.
One app, Salo, is a social networking chat application that cuts itself as a “gentle who discusses things.” (Originally, start-called Salo after it.) The duo also creates multi-camera applications (similar to bereal). In 2023, pito into the product to record a non-fresh video podcast. Then, in September 2024, the company finally made another pivot to make yope.
Startup has a dispersed team in different locations, including New York, Miami, Lisbon, and London (where she has office). The company says plan to open the R & D center in the future and is a scout for the location.
Basic Support Yope is a place to share photos and chat in private groups appear to fill in the gap.
Yes, you can create groups in Whatsapp and Snapchat. Yes, some have created a personalized group of groups on Instagram. But photo sharing, with a little chat, this is not the main use of this great application.
Anything else, Instagram is like having giving it so much sounds: FlipsideTheir own efforts to build personal groups, are resumes Only five months after launching.
“Instagram and Snapchat has become the platform for a cuurated content. When the Gen Z user has earned a lot of photos, only 1% of the shared,” says Isralau. Focus on Yope, said, as well as different from Snapchat and Instagram. Specifically about showing “unfinished content,” increased.
There, actually dozens of others who have tried to build a business around the idea of showing in a private group. A more recent attempt includes the capital supported Retro and Marissa Mayer SunshineBut the efforts went on The road in 2010See rankings-.
The truth is that no one is stuck. Whether a signal that may have a private group cannot be a great and standard business by standard? Yope believes that time may give other concept concept.
“In Goodwater, we invest in a specified consumer application, and yope is an important major behavior,” Couples are partner, Chi-Hua Chien, telling techcrroch in email. “Yope makes it easy for everyone who showed life every day with a close friend. The growth of pointing volume about the strength of the product and the team.”
The growth is really looking good for yope, but proof will be a way to support it. Bereal (other applications trying to build a personalized vibe of a private group) have summer year or twoEven the Clone Inspiration of Meta, before growth With a quick deceleratorSee rankings-. (The app lasts acquired by company and game games Voodoo.)
The team is hoping, after many misses in categories – and with your own effort to build large applications – Yope will be a difficult hit.
“He’s been hard at work,” One VC, who does not make up the start start, then he said.
