KLIPY is the enterprise-grade expression API layer, helping developers integrate GIFs, memes, stickers, clips, and AI for real-time expression, while giving creators, brands, and rights holders tools to distribute, manage, and control expressive media across digital communication platforms.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KLIPY today announced a $3.8 million fundraising round, and that it has joined Google’s AI Futures Fund, to scale its expression API layer for memes, stickers, clips, and AI for real-time expression. KLIPY helps developers integrate expressive media and AI APIs into social and creative platforms like BeReal, Baidu, Canva, Figma, and Microsoft SwiftKey, while giving creators, brands, and rights holders tools to distribute, manage, and control content.
KLIPY’s “expression layer” is built for the AI era, and nearly 10,000 developers and 40,000 creators already use KLIPY’s API, which processes billions of requests weekly. In addition to content search and creation, KLIPY is building monetization infrastructure for expressive media. Its contextual ad tools help partner apps create new revenue streams while maintaining control over content and offering a privacy-conscious user experience.
The funding will allow the company to grow its product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, expand to even more platforms, and build new monetization and creative tools for creators and content studios. KLIPY is founded by serial entrepreneurs Givi Beridze, Frank Nawabi, and Waska Chaduneli. Between them, they’ve founded seven companies, including Nawabi’s GIF-sharing platform Tenor which was acquired by Google in 2018 and scaled to over a billion users across the globe.
“People are expressing themselves through memes, GIFs, and short-form content more than ever, especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha,” said KLIPY co-founder and CEO Givi Beridze. “This explosion in visual communication is only accelerating now that AI makes expression so quick and easy.”
“While internet culture moves at lightning speed, memes, for example, possess surprising staying power,” Beridze continued. “They take on cultural meaning, and brands are realizing that they are an authentic way to join the conversation and keep their franchises relevant.”
“At Tenor, we created the largest GIF-sharing platform and pioneered the very first sponsored GIF,” said KLIPY co-founder and board member Frank Nawabi. “Now, KLIPY is building a next-generation ‘expression layer’ for the AI era that combines search, AI, and monetization into a unified API platform, with tools for content rights holders and creators to distribute and manage short-form media at scale.”
