Hike onboards Elad Gil, Mark Pincus and Shishir Mehrotra as investors

• ByTejika Bajaj     |    November 25, 2021

The interactive chatting app Hike has onboarded Elad Gil, Mark Pincus and Shishir Mehrotra aboard their sail of investors to bolster innovation at Hike. This announcement comes just some time after Hike onboarded Tinder co-founders, Binny Bansal and Kunal Shah amongst its investor portfolio.

Mark, Shishir and Elad would be joining the line-up of prominent leaders and product builders that Hike on-boarded. In its last round in August 2021, the Gurugram based tech company welcomes Justin Mateen (co-founder of Tinder), Rajeev Misra (CEO, SoftBank Vision Fund), Sean Rad (co-founder, Tinder), Kunal Shah (Founder, CRED) and Rohit Kumar Bansal (Co-founder, Snapdeal) amongst other prominent entrepreneurs and investors.

The Founder and CEO of Hike, Kavin Bharti Mittal announced the on-board of new investors through a fun tweet stating “Hike is excited about the future, and are heads down BUIDLing and are pumped to have the opportunity to contribute to this exciting next decade.”

The company earlier shared that Hike is using the fresh capital to expand on its innovative product strategy and hire talent across roles at the intersection of social, gaming, and crypto.

Founded in December 2012, Hike is an online messaging app based out of Gurugram. The app shifted its focus from messaging and launched HikeLand which lets users hang out and interact in a mobile-first virtual world.

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