ah! Ventures has invested in all-in-1 photo-sharing app, that simplifies the process of sharing, finding, and interacting with your pictures, startup Kwikpic through its First Gear Platform. ah! Ventures’ has done 115 investments in 88 Startups till date taking its total investment portfolio to INR 261 CR (~34 MN USD) with 14 exits and 22 follow on rounds. 15 investments have happened through all three platforms in 2022 till date.
Have you ever attended an event, got amazing pictures clicked, but never actually received them? You are not alone! 5 Billion photos are clicked every day, out of which 30% never reach the people they belong to. Here’s where Kwikpic comes to your rescue! Kwikpic is an all-in-1 photo-sharing app that simplifies the process of sharing, finding, and interacting with your pictures. It uses face recognition to find your photos from public places and social events in just 5 seconds!
Through their website, Kwikpic has helped more than 10,000 people receive their photos instantly from weddings, concerts, parties, conferences, family trips and tourist spots. And their vision is to reach millions of people globally through the app!
Kwikpic’s founders and childhood friends – Kushal Agarwal and Harsh Khaitan are IIT Bombay and NMIMS alumni, respectively. “After enabling seamless photo distribution for large events, we surveyed further to understand problems that users face while interacting with photos on a daily basis and at a micro level. We made notes, and started building an app that solves these problems as well. We believe Kwikpic could be the next social app that goes viral for all the right reasons. We thank the entire Ah! Ventures team for being a crucial part of the Kwikpic family. The dreams are big, with a long path ahead, but we are confident that with our team and the people guiding us, we will achieve our vision – To disrupt photo-sharing using AI.” said Harsh Khaitan, Co-founder of Kwikpic.
You can create a group on the Kwikpic App for every occasion. Just dump all the photos, and it will intelligently share pictures with friends and family in high quality without messing up your gallery. The app only downloads photos of the people important to you, while unwanted photos remain on the server. In addition, the best clicks will always stay at the top, helping you choose the right pictures for your social media and dating profiles.
Kwikpic helps you easily collect and manage all your memories from different places and effortlessly locate them in future. As everything is backed up on the cloud, your pictures remain at your fingertips, even if your device keeps changing.
Kwikpic aspires to build a community that brings out the photographer and socialite inside every human. An ecosystem which rewards the user for every picture uploaded, creates a gig economy for photographers, branding for influencers, and targeted marketing for brands.
“Traveling, Functions, Parties, Get-togethers means taking random pictures. But then I realized I don’t ever actually go back and look at them because it’s just not fun to look through thousands of photos when only maybe 50 of them actually look nice,” says Saarthak Bakshi, Partner First Gear Platform. “And if I never look at them, why take them in the first place? Since quite a number of people have literally thousands of pictures on their phone that they don’t really want, Kwikpic wanted to build a feature set that allows you to deal with them easily and have more fun with your photos. Kwikpic plans to assist users in organizing, sorting, searching, and choosing the best images from their collection of photographs using artificial intelligence (AI). The application is being developed to help reduce the stress, frustration, and time taken going through all the excessive photos a person tends to take with their smartphones.”
Interested in knowing more about this venture, write to Amit at amit.kumar@ahventures.in.
Read the original announcement: https://ahv.fyi/kwikpicpr