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Consumer Software
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Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$70M
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Founded
2011
VSCO offers a platform for photo and video editing that includes a variety of premium presets and quality editing tools. Users can enhance their images and videos using these tools to achieve a professional look. The platform also fosters a creative community where users can share their work and connect with others. What sets VSCO apart from its competitors is its focus on artistic expression and community engagement, rather than just providing editing features. The goal of VSCO is to nurture creativity, allowing users to fully express themselves through their visual content.
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VSCO has secured $100 million in funding to date, with investors including Accel Partners, Glynn Capital, Icon Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, and Obvious Ventures, according to Bloomberg.
Working with brands is one of the primary ways artists and content creators can earn substantial income today. However, itâs not easy for creators to connect with brands, and companies looking for new or specialized talent also have a difficult time finding them. Photo editing app VSCO is trying to solve this problem for its primary audience, professional photographers, with a new marketplace called VSCO Hub that aims to connects them with brands.VSCOâs platform is similar to other social platforms like Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, which already offer creator marketplaces to help businesses discover content creators and strike partnerships with them.VSCOâs CEO, Eric Wittman, who joined the company last September, equates the new portal to LinkedIn. âThe VSCO Hub is almost like LinkedIn. Brands act as recruiters, and they can easily find someone for their projects and connect with them,â he told TechCrunch over a call.To get access to VSCO Hub, photographers will have to sign up for the $59.99 Pro plan, which has more than 160,000 subscribers. For businesses, the platform offers filters like location, category, price, and availability that they can use to narrow down their search for photographers.The platform has a cool marquee feature, too: It allows creative directors to upload a reference image and search for photographers who might have similar work in their portfolios.VSCO doesnât take a cut from the project payments and just acts as a connection layer.Wittman blames social network algorithms for the lack of discoverability in the photography community, saying marketers spend many hours on Google or Instagram trying to find photographers whose work matches their creative vision
Photo editing tools are becoming essential for content creators who want to establish their brands and stand apart from other creators. Tezza, the photo and video editing app founded by husband-and-wife team Tezza Barton and Cole Herrmann, now aims to be the go-to tool for influencers, offering hundreds of editorial templates as well as over 40 curated presets, overlays, Instagram feed management tools and more.Barton, a photographer and influencer with 1.2 million Instagram followers, exclusively told TechCrunch that Tezza (which is entirely self-funded, by the way) is on track to achieve its highest-performing year as it approaches $32 million in annual recurring revenue. The company also publicly announced today that it has reached 20 million downloads since launching its app in 2018. Tezza currently has over 2.5 million active monthly users.Tezza works very similarly to VSCO. Users simply upload a picture or video and choose from a selection of filters, giving their content a professionally edited look without spending money on all those influencer-created presets that we see trending nowadays.Image Credits: TezzaAdditionally, Tezza recently launched âTezza Studio,â a video-editing feature that lets content creators easily edit full-feature videos with vintage-inspired film effects, music and an array of presets and fonts. VSCO rolled out its first video editing tool in 2017.âWhile there are several apps that are great for piecing together videos, we didnât feel like there was anything that allowed people to create something truly beautiful,â Barton told us
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Adding on to its impressive list of app-based editing features and functionsâincluding effects built from actual film scans âVSCO has released two new sets of âinfraredâ filters that create dreamy blue and pink hues.
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Industries
Consumer Software
Entertainment
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$70M
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Founded
2011
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