Kifi

Name

Kifi

Website

https://kifi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kifi was a Mountain View-based knowledge-sharing startup founded in 2012 that raised approximately $11.2 million in venture funding before ceasing operations, with its primary domain now listed for sale on GoDaddy Auctions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Knowledge Management Software

akta.pro primary industry

Knowledge Management & Wikis (BPAMAMAH)

Keywords

• Knowledge sharing
• Content discovery
• Social knowledge
• Information curation
• Collaborative research

Headquarters

HQ city

Mountain View

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

Kifi is described as a service for "connecting people with knowledge." The company operated a knowledge discovery and sharing platform based in Mountain View, United States. The current kifi.com domain is parked on GoDaddy Auctions and listed for sale, indicating the business is no longer active at the domain level.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Refind: Social bookmarking and discovery platform that lets users save links and surface what others are reading — directly comparable to Kifi's social knowledge-sharing concept.
• Pocket: Save-and-read-later service for web content; overlaps with Kifi's link-saving and knowledge-collection functionality, originally spun out of Mozilla.
• Pinboard: Personal bookmarking service for saving URLs with tags and notes; comparable in core functionality to Kifi's knowledge-saving intent, though positioned for individual rather than social use.
• Delicious: Pioneer social bookmarking service for tagging, saving, and sharing web links — the historical benchmark against which Kifi's knowledge-discovery product competed.
• Raindrop.io: Bookmark manager for saving and organizing web content with visual collections — a modern, directly comparable social-bookmarking product to Kifi.
• Diigo: Social bookmarking and annotation tool that lets users save, tag, highlight, and share web content — a close functional analogue to Kifi's knowledge-capture model.

Broad incumbents

• Pinterest: Social platform for saving, organizing, and discovering links and visual content — directly analogous to Kifi's original social bookmarking and knowledge-capture concept but at vastly greater scale.
• Evernote: Established note-taking and knowledge-organization product for clipping web content and building personal knowledge bases — adjacent to Kifi's knowledge-capture space.

Emerging players

• Notion: Knowledge management and wiki platform for capturing, linking, and sharing information; overlaps with Kifi's later positioning around collaborative knowledge organization.
• Matter: Read-later and knowledge-saving service that combines bookmarking with social discussion, offering a modern take on the social knowledge-capture model Kifi pioneered.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kifi
• Facebookfacebook.com/kifi42
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fortytwo-inc-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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