The Kik Bot Platform
Our portfolio company Kik launched its bot platform today. Kik has supported bots for several years but they were limited to bots from publishers and brands that were willing to make a significant...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Chat, Bots, and Kik
Ted Livingston, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Kik, did an interview last week at Disrupt in which he talked about the chat market, bots, and Kik’s role in all of that. USV TEAM POSTS:Nick...
View ArticleChecking In On Chat Bots
Four months ago, I blogged about our portfolio company Kik’s chat bot platform. A week later, Facebook launched its chat bot platform for its Messenger product. If you believed the hype around chat...
View ArticleWhat Happened In 2017
As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing on what happened and then thinking about what might happen. Today, we...
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