Pikhub
Pikhub will help you relive the entire experience of the events that have been part of your life.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
$30.0k | Seed | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Pikhub was a venture-backed startup that operated in the social media landscape with a focus on event-based photo sharing. The company was founded in Merida, Mexico, in 2011 by Jul Ceballos and Rich Peniche.
The core service was an online platform designed for collaborative photo sharing among friends at social events. The platform enabled users to create shared photo albums, allowing multiple attendees to contribute their pictures from an event into a single, collective gallery. This aimed to solve the fragmented experience of gathering photos from various personal devices after a gathering. The service was accessible via an iOS application, targeting the growing market of smartphone users at the time.
Ceballos, who studied Computer Systems Engineering, and Peniche, a design strategist, positioned Pikhub to capitalize on the intersection of social networking and live events. Their entrepreneurial journey included securing a seed funding round on December 14, 2011. The investment came from Mexican VC, a venture capital firm that was actively funding early-stage technology companies in Mexico. Despite this early backing and its inclusion in a portfolio of promising national startups, the company ultimately ceased operations and is now considered deadpooled.
Keywords: photo sharing, event photography, social platform, collaborative albums, mobile application, iOS app, Mexican startup, Merida tech, Jul Ceballos, Rich Peniche, Mexican VC, seed funding, deadpooled startup, social media technology, event tech, photo aggregation, digital media