LiveProfile
LiveProfile is a messaging app and mobile social network, owned and operated by LiveProfile Inc., for Android and iOS. It allows users to the send and receive messages, photos, videos, audio, as well as other types of content. History. LiveProfile was founded by Phil Karl and William Key and launched on October 16, 2010. It quickly gained widespread popularity and received as many as 200,000 new user registrations per day. LiveProfile raised Series A financing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Naval Ravikant In November 2011 BlackBerry Ltd acquired LiveProfile, Inc with the intention of integrating with BlackBerry Messenger, as  part of their cross-platform strategy shift. This plan, considered by BlackBerry Co-CEO Jim Balsillie a top strategic priority, deeply divided the company as such a shift would cause a decline in device sales. Ultimately the strategy shift was cancelled and the LiveProfile app was discontinued in December 2013. Relaunch and availability. The original LiveProfile team announced in March 2019 that they are working to soon relaunch LiveProfile as a new independent company.