9GAG
Company

Last deal

Amount

Pre-Seed

Stage

22.08.2012

Date

3

all rounds

$2.8M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
9GAG.TV is an online platform that features user-generated videos under various categories that are updated daily.

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founded date

01.01.2008

founders

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Pre-Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

The company is a global cross-platform digital and social media network with 150 million global audiences, predominantly Gen Y & Z, and distributes 2.2 billion social video views monthly. They provide comical images and videos under categories such as fail and prank, comedy, game, TV, and music, making content and videos viral. Their mission is to make the world happier, and they are backed by several investors in the United States.
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Ray Chan
Ray Chan

Ray Chan

Ray is the co-founder of 9GAG, one of the leading user generated content sites in the world, where he focuses on making a sustainable business out of humor. 9GAG is a Y Combinator and 500 Startups alumnus where Ray and his team spent a large amount of their time in Silicon Valley, learning from the best. Before founding 9GAG, Ray was working on Singboard, a web-meets-karaoke game. He was also a product manager at aNobii, an online reading community that was acquired by a new venture backed by HMV Group, Harper Collins, Penguin and Random House in 2010.

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9GAG
9GAG

organization founded

1

Ray Chan

Employee Profiles
6

Chi Chow

Operations manager

Lilian Leong

Lilian Leong

Global Chief Operating Officer

Kwai Moon

Web engineer

Ray Chan

Ray Chan

CEO & Co-founder

Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

Investor

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