Gfycat
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Gfycat ( ) was a user-generated short video hosting company founded by Richard Rabbat, Dan McEleney, and Jeff Harris.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online community
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto
- Owned by
- Snap Inc.
- Parent organization
- Snap Inc.
- Official website
- gfycat.com
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- inception
- 2013-00-00
- search formatter URL
- gfycat.com/gifs/search/$1
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2023-09-01
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Gfycat ( ) was a user-generated short video hosting company founded by Richard Rabbat, Dan McEleney, and Jeff Harris.
==History== Founded in 2013 in Edmonton, Canada, Gfycat was among the first web services to offer video encoding of GIFs. It was incorporated in the United States in 2015, and raised $10 million in a 2016 seed funding round.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gfycat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.