Acquired by Envato. Provider of crowdsourced real-world images intended to connect photographers with creative professionals. The company's platform offers images from a database of 45 million photos from over 250,000 photographers in 154 countries, enabling users to get new content and monetize their work in a hassle free manner.
Location: United States, California, Santa Monica
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $20M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 26.02.2015 | Series A | $20M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.08.2016 | Bylined crowdsources product photos for brands | You may recall Vince Vaughn’s faux stock photo campaign that accompanied his 2015 movie Unfinished Business. In those campaign photos, the actor had his head cleverly photoshopped into bland, business stock photography. There’s a reason tha... |
| 18.07.2016 | Why You Shouldn’t Start a Business Alone | This piece originally appeared on AllBusiness.com. Starting and running a business is a big responsibility—and an even bigger headache. Between finances, employees, and long hours, the responsibilities are usually easier for a two-person te... |
| 12.03.2015 | StockUnlimited Brings The Netflix Model To Stock Imagery, Starting With Vector Graphics | While it’s easy enough to find stock imagery online, buying those images and graphics typically involves signing up for pricey plans that give you a limited number of credits per month. StockUnlimited wants to bring some fresh wind into thi... |
| 27.02.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/27/15 | Iotera, Knowmail, Getable, Xero, Twenty20, Metamarkets, Leankor, Branch Metrics, Silent Circle, Seed stage Iotera, a real-time GPS tracking device that can be used to track a whole host of things, raised a $1 million round of seed funding r... |
| 27.02.2015 | Twenty20 Raises $8M in Series A Funding | Twenty20, a Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based provider of crowdsourced real-world images, raised $8m in Series A funding. The round was led by Canaan Partners with participation from First Round Capital, Bullpen Capital and VersionOne Ventures. ... |
| 26.02.2015 | Twenty20 Raises $8M, Launches Crowdsourced Photo-Licensing Service | Twenty20, the startup formerly known as Instacanvas, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A round led by Canaan Partners. With this funding round, Twenty20 has also finalized its transformation from printing service for I... |
| 26.02.2015 | Twenty20 Gets $20M For Crowdsourced Stock Photography | Marina Del Rey-based Twenty20 is taking aim at the stock photography market, announcing this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding and launched its commercial image catalog out of beta. The startup--led by Matt Munson--said ... |
| 16.10.2013 | Instacanvas Rebrands As Twenty20, Launches Stock Photography Service | Last April, Instacanvas launched as an easy way to print photos from Instagram on canvas, but the company’s founders always had the ambition to expand the service beyond this first idea. Today, Instacanvas is adding rebranding as Twenty20 t... |