IRL
Consumer Apps / SocialUSAClosed 2023
Total Raised
$200M
Peak Valuation
$1.17B
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2023
Business model
Social app for discovering and planning real-world events and group hangouts with friends.
In brief
Marketed itself as the next big social platform for event discovery, reaching unicorn status in 2021 on the strength of a reported 20 million users, with SoftBank leading a massive investment round. An internal investigation and subsequent SEC probe found that approximately 95% o…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2018
- Closed
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Industry
- Consumer Apps / Social
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Abraham Shafi
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Often compared with: Partiful, Eventbrite.