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Gaming and media

# Bump

Bump was acquired by Google in 2013. The Bump and Flock apps were shut down, but our unreleased Photoroll app went on to become the basis for Google Photos, which we led from inception to more than 1B users. Bump let you exchange contact info and photos by bumping phones together. Bump was one of the all-time top mobile apps, amassing more than 150M installs by 2013. Flock was a semi-automated photo sharing app that figured out which photos you took with which friends and created private shared

sources

2

Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

2

Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

competitors

6

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

status

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artifact cache

last updated

2026-07-15

17:19 UTC

source evidence

Why this company exists here

## Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #659

[official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bump)

## Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #150

[official source](https://a16z.com/investment-list/)

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High Signal interpretation

Bump is classified as **Gaming and media** from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction

Product facets

FlockBumpGoogle PhotosPhotoroll app

mapping method

Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

## Companies similar to Bump

Gaming and media · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

[### Snapjoy match 52Snapjoy is an online photo storage service that imports photos from anywhere and organizes them in a meaningful way. After uploading some photos, the app categorizes the photos for its user, using metadata to try to intelligently place the correct photos in each album. If the user uploads the same photo multiple times, Snapjoy ignores the duplicates. By default, everything uploaded to Snapjoy is private but users can still share photos with specific groups of friends, and if the users grant permshared product terms: but, app, photo, time; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/snapjoy)[### Rune match 49Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform. Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code. They launch their game on Rune and instantly, thousands of passionate friend groups play it together on voice chat right inside thshared product terms: app, together, mobile, shar; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/rune)[### FamilyLeaf match 44FamilyLeaf is a private place to share your life with your family. You create a private page where your family can easily share photos, share life updates, store contact information, and post messages. Our mission is to bring families around the world closer together. Family is the most irreplaceable but overlooked social network; we want to help you share the little things that build a lifetime of love!shared product terms: but, photo, contact, together; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/familyleaf)[### Zenter match 36Zenter is an web based presentation app that promises to really take advantage of being online. Users will have the regular functionality of PowerPoint, but with the ability to directly add content from the web (Google Images). Each public slide show will also be put into a public library, for other users to remix or just drop into their show. Zenter was acquired by Google in June, 2007.shared product terms: acquir, google, but, app; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/zenter)[### TalkBin match 17Acquired by Google, integrated natively into Google Maps.shared product terms: acquir, google; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/talkbin)[### AdThrow match 10Other company.shared affiliation: Y Combinator; shared cohort: Summer 2009; nearby official-directory cohort](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/adthrow)

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