The only technology entrepreneur to make the magazine’s list of Canadians under the Age of 25 to keep an Eye On was none other than Kik Interactive, Inc.’s founder Ted Livingston. Kik is a free texting application created for multiple platforms that has steadily growing into a community that will include music sharing and photos. The application allows SMS fee free messaging that is efficient in its use of data.
The Waterloo educated engineer and his team have relayed that momentum and created a universal remote application that turns your smartphone into a universal remote control thanks in large part to a $8M Series A round of funding. Both of the company’s creations are in line with what Livingston offered Maclean’s in an email: his feel that “Smartphones would impact the world more than PC’s and the internet combined.”
Livingston is planning big things with his alma mater, having infested $1M into the school’s mobile and digital incubator fund known as the VeloCity Residence. This is a full circle achievement for the rising Livingston who conceived the ideas that have pushed his ideas and company to prominence.
We expect to be hearing both Livingston and Kik Interactive’s names more moving forward, earning him his well-deserved spot on the list with prominent athletes, world changers and politicians.
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