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In short order, their strong team has grown a huge community of very active users who are creating hundreds of pieces of new audio content every day. Voicy’s pre-seed raise is led by Oliver Samwer’s Global Founders Capital, with a number of tech senior execs also participating from companies including Twitch, Spotify, Deezer, Snapchat, Booking, Uber, Reddit, Acast and Tesla.Ĭommenting in a statement, Global Founders Capital’s Soheil Mirpour said: “Voicy is a very exciting new startup. “There are a lot of potential integrations within social messaging, for example WhatsApp, FB Messenger social video - Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube gaming - Roblox, Ubisoft, Xbox, Discord and streaming - Twitch, Streamlabs and Corsair,” they suggest, reeling off the tier one consumer platform list. Or basically anywhere where noisy memes might find an appreciative audience. The startup is planning to build out a pipeline of third party integrations to drive for further growth, with the help of a €1.2 million pre-seed raise being announced today - eyeing potential love-ins across social messaging, streaming and gaming platforms. While, following their recent partnership with Viber, users there have sent over 20 million audio messages - which have been played 100M times in just three months. They also say a Voicy user plays, on average, 20 sound clips and shares one per visit. Other usage metrics they share include that users have created some 145,000 sound clips so far, with an average of 10k more being added per month. The platform fully launched in October 2020, per the founders, and they’ve grown usage to 1.1 million monthly active users at this stage (although that’s including usage via Viber, not just ears they’re pulling into their own platform). With the addition of public API, further integrations and a strong foundation within the platform, we believe our impact can be exponential.” With integrations, our approach has been to connect our platform with other platforms and give users wider accessibility to sharing content. “Our technology directly serves that purpose through an open-source approach to content, with safeguards layered in to moderate. “From the ground up, we have developed our platform to give users the express ability to create,” they add. In addition to this, the competition among apps and platforms is immense and all of them are working hard to make their offering more sticky, fun and engaging. We’ve seen from instant chat, to emoticons to GIFs that people all over the world want to experiment with and simply have fun with how they communicate - it’s one of the things we all have in common. Audio has the capacity to have the same, if not bigger impact on modern communications. “As we’ve seen with memes and GIFs, people love to create their own very creative content. Zooming out, Voicy’s stated mission is to do for sound clips what Giphy has done for GIFs. So far it has one integration inked with messaging app, Viber - but it’s offering a “simple universal API” to encourage other platforms to sign up. The typical Voicy user is, unsurprisingly, young and trigger happy, per the startup - which envisages gamer voice chat as a key target for a pipelines of social integrations it hopes to build out. John Oliver screaming “GOOGLE IT!” repeatedly, or Epic Sax Guy’s epic saxing, and so on.
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Plus a cacophony of over-enthusiastic Internet memes in audio form. Borat clips, for example, or Squid Game sounds. It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips - which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? Hoping to storm the ear-bending arena of social audio and win friends amid the gamer/creator crowd is Voicy - a Netherlands-based startup that’s building a platform for user-generated audio snippets (typically a few seconds long), offering tools to create emotive samples for reaction sharing to spice up your messaging/streams.