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Kamcord

Our core thesis at Kamcord was that people do very interesting things on their phone screen but don't have a good way to capture and share those moments.\n\nWe've built 3 products in 5 years:\n- A mobile gameplay recording SDK that was on 200M devices at its peak\n- A live streaming community that reached 2M MAU and $2M ARR off virtual goods\n- A mobile social app focused on editing and sharing screenshots and screen recordings

AcquiredSummer 2012Other

About Kamcord

Our core thesis at Kamcord was that people do very interesting things on their phone screen but don't have a good way to capture and share those moments. We've built 3 products in 5 years: - A mobile gameplay recording SDK that was on 200M devices at its peak - A live streaming community that reached 2M MAU and $2M ARR off virtual goods - A mobile social app focused on editing and sharing screenshots and screen recordings

Risk Analysis

Category Risk

22%death rate

Other: 130 of 604 startups failed

MEDIUM

Team Size

11people

Median for failed in Other: 2

Median for active in Other: 4

Founded 2012 — older batches naturally have higher attrition rates. Death rate comparisons should account for age.

External Resources

Post-mortem content hosted on startups.rip — we provide the analytics layer.