Kik raises another round of funding at $19.5M to support its increasingly growing user base and hire more talent

Kik Interactive today announced another round of funding at $19.5 million to support its rapidly growing user base and hire more employees.

“[The funding] is a sign that we are trying to build a big, sustainable company,” Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik Interactive, told us in an interview. “This round gives us the resources to support the infrastructure and hire the right people to do that.”

Livingston says the new funds will help the company buy more servers to keep up with Kik Messenger’s quick

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