Hike shuts messaging app, shifts focus to new social offerings
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Last Updated: Jan 19, 2021, 08:21 AM IST
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Hike has so far raised over $260 million from investors, including Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, manufacturing firm Foxconn Technology Group and the Bharti group
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Hike Founder Kavin Bharti Mittal.
Hike has shut down its messaging service, with the company, which counts Softbank, Tencent, Foxconn and Tiger Global as investors, shifting focus to two new social products Rush and Vibe.
Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO of Hike Messenger, through his Twitter handle, said the Hike chat app would be shutting down from January 15, 2021. “Today, we are announcing that we will be sunsetting StickerChat in Jan’21,” Mittal had recently tweeted.
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