Funding Details
- Awarder
- RSS - techcrunch.com
- Date Award
- August 02, 2024
- Vertical
- Social Media
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
- Valuation
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$1,170,000,000
Company Info
- Traction
- IRL had purportedly attracted 12 million users, but this was later found to be misleading.
- Founders
- Abraham Shafi
- Company Description
- IRL was positioned as a viral social media app that took off during the pandemic, but it was later revealed that 95% of the app’s users were fake. The app started as a social calendar and was building out a messaging-based social network.
- Market
- Technology
- Location
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US
- Coinvestors
- Softbank’s Vision Fund 2
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