Podcast network on YouTube.
Location: United States, California, Los Angeles
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $12.5M
Founded date: 2013
Investors 8
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 08.09.2015 | - | $4M | - |
| 22.04.2015 | Series A | $8.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.10.2016 | Shots Studios rebrands from selfie app to social star video factory | Twitter once tried to buy Shots for $150 million to score its 3 million rabid teen users, a source tells TechCrunch. But the Justin Bieber-funded selfie app developer dreamed of a different destiny, where it would become the “Saturday Night... |
| 23.04.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 4/23/16 | Pinterest acquired Curator; AOL bought RYOT; ShopAdvisor purchased Retailigence AOL acquired virtual reality content studio RYOT. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. AOL will use the technology to create 360 degree video across i... |
| 03.03.2016 | Bieber-backed Shots goes beyond selfies with links and comedy | Life is hard enough for teens, so Shots sidestepped bullies with a selfie sharing app that doesn’t allow commenting. Now the 6.6 million monthly active user social network wants to boost kids’ spirits by refocusing around comedy. Today’s iO... |
| 29.10.2015 | More Than A Selfie App, Shots Produces Original Videos With Puppets (And Bieber) | Shots has been pigeonholed since birth. First it was dismissed as just a startup funded by Justin Bieber. Then it was laughed at for being an app just for selfies. But after 2 years, $15.2 million raised, and almost 10 million sign-ups, Sho... |
| 08.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 8, 2015 | Smile Telecoms Holdings bagged $365M; BlaBlaCar secured $160M; SetPoint Medical raised $43M YouthKiAwaaz, an online news and views platform, has raised angel funding of Rs 4 crore ($600,000) from Quintillion Media, the cross-platform digita... |
| 08.09.2015 | Shots Raises Another $4M As It Strives To Reclaim The Selfie | Selfies might be the social currency of our generation, but the companies based around them still kind of need cash. Shots, a selfie app made famous by high-profile celebrity supporters like Justin Bieber, just raised another $4 million in ... |
| 04.09.2015 | Hipster Barbie Shows Us How Plastic We All Really Are On Social Media | “Could I be any more authentic?!” Socality Barbie is an Instagram account that primarily pokes fun at the social media app’s “community” culture, but it also offers a broader commentary on how our culture is evolving in how we portray ourse... |
| 24.04.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/24/15 | Freshdesk, Oscar, Color Genomics, Gravie, Full Measure Education, Sulekha, Music Messenger, Onfleet Seed stage Digital wallet CoinTent raised a $1 million seed round from Foundry Group, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Mark Pincus, Donna Dubi... |
| 22.04.2015 | Shots Raises $8.5M Series A in Venture Capital Funding | Shots, a San Francisco, CA-based social app where users take real-time selfies and 3-second videos, raised $8.5m Series A venture capital funding. The round was led by WI Harper with participation from Launch Fund, Upfront Ventures, Maven V... |
| 01.10.2014 | Are We Already Running Out of Useful Smartphone Apps? | Photo via Flickr user William Hook The image of a San Francisco cabbie's dashboard loaded up with five phones is proof enough that our course towards a sleek, streamlined future courtesy of technology is hardly proceeding frictionlessly. If... |
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