Funded by Us. Answerable to You.

Outside investment comes with outside pressure. Pressure to raise prices, hit growth targets, and optimize for returns over users. We’ve structured Kove to avoid that entirely.

Independence means we don’t raise prices because an investor needs a better quarter. It means we don’t sell your data or introduce ads because we need another revenue stream. It means the only people we’re accountable to are the ones actually using the product.

Kove is purely subscription-based. That’s it.

No ads. No data sales. No hidden monetization. If you’re not paying a subscription, we’re not making money off you.

This model aligns our incentives with yours: our revenue comes from volume — from building something genuinely useful that a lot of people want to use. A mediocre product with high prices serves investors. A good product at a fair price serves users. We’re building the latter.

Kove was started as a student project and has been kept lean by design. Student access to development tools, careful infrastructure choices, and deliberate spending have kept startup costs minimal — serious expenses have been little more than the legal filings to establish the company properly.

One of our long-term goals is B Corp certification. It’s a high bar — and that’s the point. B Corp status would formalize what we already try to operate by: that a company can be built to serve people, not just profit from them.

We’re in the early stages, but it’s a goal we plan around and one we’d be honored to achieve.