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Lapse
Social photo journal for friends
- 1-20 employees
- B2C
- Entertainment
- Social
- Social Media
- Mobile
- Video
- Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Company mission
To bring the disposable camera experience to mobile.
20% female employees
Our take
Lapse is on a mission to reinvent how people socialise with friends. Its social disposable camera allows users to share a virtual role of film with friends, limiting them to 36 snaps that are hidden once they're taken. Then, 48 hours later, the snaps will be developed and shared with their group all at the same time.
Aiming to become the next big social network, Lapse looks to capitalise on the fondness and nostalgia for analogue photography - take the rise and fall, and rise again, of Polaroid and Instax cameras - and give it a modern tech twist.
The company is backed by some of the top VCs in Europe who have backed the likes of Stripe, Klarna, Lime, and Tide, and has completed one of the fastest-ever consumer social funding rounds. With the product currently in beta, Lapse is looking to grow its small but ambitious team and get ready to launch its product to the masses.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Macbook and iPhone
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2024
$29.2m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$10.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.9m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Dan Silvertown
(Co-founder)Previously founded Talent Ladder and Lockdown Haircut. Prior to that, was the Chief Commercial Officer at Tempo and worked as a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Ben Silvertown
(Co-founder)Studied Graphic Design at Central St Martins before joining AKQA. Most recently, was Creative Director at Copper ($250M valuation) and has started numerous viral projects gaining 50M+ views.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lapse
Georgie Mortimer (Community Manager)
- We are committed to socially responsible social media and will be working towards B-Corp certification
- One of the core propositions of Lapse is that it's for sharing amongst friends, not followers. Part of our mission is to take the anxiety and pressure out of sharing
- We operate a flat hierarchy where everyone's opinions are valued and championed regardless of gender, ethnicity, or anything else
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Innovative product (3)
Hard working team (2)
Challenging work (1)
Career progression (1)
Meaningful work (1)
Nice people (1)
Intelligent people (1)
Team energy (1)
Growing fast (1)
It's so inspiring to work in a team where every member is so hardworking. We are all working towards the same goal of making Lapse a huge success and are really supportive of one another.
Marketing
Hard working team
Jun 2021
Lapse is the future of how we interact and take photos in social situations. It's super exciting to work for something that's changing the game of how we take photos & social media. The team has worked so hard to bring the idea to life and the product is so exciting to use.
Marketing
Innovative product
Jun 2021
Lapse is such an exciting company to work for, everyone is so friendly, motivated, and ambitious. It is a team full of fantastic people! I feel so lucky to be working here.
Marketing
Team energy
Jun 2021
Great, authentic vision for a space that's hungry for disruptive change. Individual passions are celebrated and incorporated into the company vision.
Product
Meaningful work
May 2021
I first joined in an advisory and research capacity, quickly progressing to my current role as Product Lead on the Camera. We're a young company so headroom for personal growth is huge.
Product
Career progression
May 2021
Lapse has gained huge momentum in the past couple months alone, with that kind of traction it's easy to stay motivated and see our goals come to fruition in the future.
Product
Growing fast
May 2021
Being a part of Lapse feels like an extension of my own family - everybody is so friendly and super talented!
Software Engineering
Nice people
May 2021
Our team pays a lot of attention to the small details and we're all willing to go the extra mile to make the product something we can be proud of.
Software Engineering
Hard working team
May 2021
Lapse is such a genuinely great concept, backed by a super talented core team of photographers, engineers, designers and strategists, which will change the way we take snaps and share them with our friends. It's amazing to be working on something that's really going somewhere big!
Software Engineering
Innovative product
May 2021
Everyone in the team is a rockstar at what they do. It's so motivating being surrounded by a team who you learn from with everything you do
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
May 2021
We're building a product that is genuinely fun to use and the feedback from users is incredible. People get it straight away and love it
Operations & Strategy
Innovative product
May 2021
The company is really ambitious and so we want everything from product to growth to the best it ca and that means there're lots of challenges to work through
Operations & Strategy
Challenging work
May 2021
