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Location: United States, Hawaii
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $197M
Valuation: $1.17B
Founded date: 2017
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Long Journ... | longjourne... |
| - | Goodwater ... | goodwaterc... |
| 27.01.2022 | Audrey Cap... | audrey.co |
| - | Designer F... | designerfu... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 15.06.2021 | Series C | $170M | - |
| 22.09.2020 | Series B | $16M | - |
| 13.06.2019 | - | $11M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.04.2024 | Fortune Launches New Advice Column with Founder, Investor, Entrepreneur Andy Dunn | "Ask Andy" features tips for launching a new business venture while maintaining a healthy mind Bonobos and Pie co-founder, best-selling author of "Burn Rate," and mental health advocate shares personal insights on mental... |
| 01.08.2023 | Startups shutting down in 2023: Tech startups that closed up shops in Q2 as venture market cools | It is undeniable that 2023 has been a challenging year for tech startups across the globe. The initial optimism that started at the beginning of this year quickly gave way to a daunting combination of banking defaults and Federal Reserve in... |
| 01.07.2023 | Netflix axes its basic plan in Canada, IRL shuts down and Shein’s influencer stunt backfires | It’s that time of week again, folks. Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular digest of the past week in tech. New here? Not to worry — sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday, then read on for the week’s recap. Th... |
| 26.06.2023 | Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake | Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were “automated or from bots,” The Information first reported. So,... |
| 10.10.2022 | The Search For Balance Led Abraham Shafi To His Billion Dollar Tech Unicorn | Abe Shafi, founder of IRL, Photo Credit: Abdi Ibrahim Photo Credit: Abdi Ibrahim |
| 02.12.2021 | Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AeBeZe Labs | IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn, is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AeBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of makin... |
| 21.06.2021 | TikTok launches Jump, a third-party integration tool | TikTok announced today the launch of its Jump program, which expands the app’s potential for third-party integrations. TikTok began beta-testing this feature in February with Whisk, a recipe-sharing app, though only select creators could us... |
| 15.06.2021 | Messaging social network IRL hits unicorn status with SoftBank-led $170M Series C | Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.” Following its pandemic-fueled growth and further push into the social networking space with... |
| 15.06.2021 | IRL Raises $170M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.17 Billion | IRL (In Real Life), a San Francisco, CA-based group messaging social network, raised $170M in Series C funding, achieving an over $1.17 Billion valuation. The round, which brought IRL’s total funding to more than $200M to-date, was led by S... |
| 15.06.2021 | Social planning app startup IRL raises $170M on unicorn valuation of $1.17B Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that inc... | Social planning application startup IRL announced today it has raised $170 million in new funding to expand its user base internationally. The Series C round in IRL, which stands for “in real life,” was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Other ... |
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