Kicksend is a Y Combinator–backed consumer file-sharing service founded by Pradeep Elankumaran and Brendan Lim that focuses on simplicity for non-technical users. Its platforms (web and desktop) are connected in real time so users can drag and drop large batches of files and have them delivered instantly to recipients' desktop and web apps and inboxes. The service advertises no size limits, privacy, and asynchronous delivery, positioning itself differently from IM and folder-sync backup solutions. Mobile apps are planned and expected to extend the product's reach. The company launched in beta and has been iterating on major new features since launch. Kicksend says it will use new capital to grow its team and accelerate product enhancements. Kicksend provides web and desktop apps that let users drag-and-drop files of any size and send them to recipients who need only an email address. The desktop client can automatically receive and organize incoming files on the recipient’s hard drive, while the web app offers realtime notifications and per-file comment threads. The product supports group lists for shared recipients and exposes social-graph integration via Facebook Connect; mobile apps are planned and described as coming soon. The backend is optimized for content delivery to route media and data to any endpoint. The company currently offers a free tier with up to 1GB of sending bandwidth and plans premium subscriptions (likely including 10GB monthly capacity, delivery alerts, and detailed analytics) plus an enterprise plan with notifications, analytics, and private-file controls. On a word-of-mouth basis Kicksend has amassed about 15,000 registered users and has facilitated over 40,000 file transfers.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Nov 2011