Total Funding
9
Total FundingSeries C raised
Growth Score
pts
Heat Score
-13 pts
Company Performance Metrics
Score
Trend
AI Content may contain mistakes and is not legal, financial or investment advice.Learn more.
Growth Score - The measure of growth based on company activity, operational metrics, and investments
Growth Trend - The change in the growth score over the given time period
Heat Score - The measure of the market interest, media activity, and Crunchbase profile activity
Heat Trend - The change in the heat score over the given time period
See more interactive data and historical milestones on desktop for the best experience
163610
Musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing, and discovering short videos.
- Alex (June) Zhu: Co-Founder, Co-CEO
- Eric J. Kim: InvestorPast Role: Maverick Ventures, Managing Director
About the Company
Founded in 2014, by creator Alex Zhu and longtime friend, Luyu Yang, musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing and discovering short videos. Every day, millions of teens use musical.ly as an outlet to express themselves through singing, dancing, comedy, and lip-syncing. The app celebrates creativity with videos recorded in 15
seconds or less that are shared across the musical.ly community. More than half of U.S. teens are users of musical.ly. Since first being made available in October 2014, musical.ly has hit #1 in the iOS App Store for free apps in 20 countries - including the United States.
In 2017 Musical.ly was acquired by ByteDance subsidiary Toutiao, and in 2018 Musical.ly was merged into ByteDance subsidiary TikTok.
