New Meme Trading Platform Giggles Completes $1.2 Million Pre-Seed Funding Round, with participation from 1kx Capital and others

MarsBitNews · 2026-04-09T04:38:19+00:00

Short video and meme trading platform Giggles completed $1.2 million in Pre-Seed funding in 2025, attracting multiple investment institutions and angel investors. Founded by 19-year-old Canadian Justin Jin, Giggles combines social videos with prediction markets, allowing users to trade trending content. It is currently in invitation-only testing phase.

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2026-04-09 04:38:19

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Mars Finance news: according to market sources, the short-video + meme trading platform Giggles completed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round in 2025. Investors include 1kx Capital, Virtuals Protocol, Social Graph Ventures, Noar Ventures, Night Capital, and more. Angel investors come from institutions such as OpenAI and Bain Capital. According to reports, Giggles was built by 19-year-old Canadian founder Justin Jin. It is a TikTok-style short-form video social app whose core mechanism is “all content can be traded.” Users can conduct price discovery and trading for trending videos and memes. The project combines social scrolling video with prediction markets: if users buy content early and it goes viral, they can profit. It is currently in an invite-only testing phase, has attracted a large number of users to its waiting list, and demonstrates the integration of content economics with crypto market trends.

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