Dollop

What Dollop does

Dollop is a for-profit mobile application company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 2013. The company's product is a consumer-facing mobile app that enables users to send "real treats" to friends using an emoji-based interface, positioning it in the social gifting or peer-to-peer reward category. Dollop operates as a small private venture with 1-10 employees and maintains a public web presence at dollopapp.com; the company is not publicly traded and no investor relations activity is recorded.

Dollop's earliest documented capital activity was a January 2013 engagement with LaunchHouse reported at $0, consistent with an accelerator program arrangement or in-kind support. This was followed by a $230,000 funding round in April 2015; the lead investor and broader investor composition for that round are not publicly disclosed. No subsequent funding events, partnerships, acquisitions, product updates, leadership changes, or geographic expansions are documented in the available data.

The company profile is materially thin: no product roadmap, technology stack, pricing mechanics, user metrics, revenue disclosures, or active social media presence is recorded. A substantial portion of the aggregated source material pertains to an unrelated beauty and lifestyle editorial blog called "TheBeautyFoodie" and does not describe Dollop's operations; that material has been excluded from this analysis.

Name

Dollop

Website

https://dollopapp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Dollop is a mobile application that lets users send real treats to friends using an emoji. It bridges digital messaging with physical gift-giving by allowing consumers to attach tangible rewards to emoji interactions in chat. The platform targets social, mobile-first users who want to express appreciation or celebrate moments with real-world treats.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dollop Mobile App

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• Giftly: Giftly was a social/mobile gifting app that let users send real gifts via a mobile interface, making it a near-direct competitor to Dollop's emoji-based real-treat gifting model.
• SnackMagic: SnackMagic lets users build and send snack boxes to recipients remotely — a direct functional analogue to Dollop's "send real treats" concept, especially in corporate gifting and consumer snack gifting.
• Giftagram: Giftagram is a mobile-first corporate and personal gifting platform with curated gift catalogs and global fulfillment, comparable to Dollop in deliverable-gift mechanics and target use cases.
• Goody: Goody is a mobile-first gifting platform where senders choose gifts from a curated catalog and ship them to recipients. The core UX — pick a gift, send it to a person via link/app — is closely aligned with Dollop's treat-sending flow.
• Treat (formerly Memmo): Treat is a mobile gifting app that lets users send personalized video messages paired with real gifts from a curated catalog. It overlaps directly with Dollop on the social-gifting + physical-fulfillment model.

Emerging players

• Caroo: Caroo is a corporate gifting and snack-box platform with strong mobile/online ordering. While it leans B2B, its curated snack gifting model is structurally similar to Dollop's treat-sending flow.
• Hoppier: Hoppier enables remote teams to send gifts and food to employees worldwide. It overlaps with Dollop on the deliver-a-real-item-to-someone-else mobile UX, though Hoppier is concentrated in the HR/remote-work vertical.
• &Open: &Open is a curated corporate gifting platform delivering physical gifts globally. Comparable to Dollop on fulfillment, curation, and recipient experience, but primarily B2B focused.
• Postable: Postable started as online greeting cards and has expanded into gifts, making it an adjacent peer in the digital-to-physical gifting space that overlaps with Dollop's mobile gifting use case.

Broad incumbents

• 1-800-Flowers: 1-800-Flowers is a broad incumbent in consumer gift delivery, with mobile ordering and curated gift/treat assortments. It competes with Dollop on the same end-user occasion (sending treats/gifts) at much greater scale.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Preztoapp
• Facebookfacebook.com/PreztoGifts
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dollop-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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