Clava

Discover what's around you through real-time alerts & location-based chatrooms

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Highlights

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Graduated from The Batchery and 2020 Startups Accelerators
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Gained 1000 users through word of mouth over a 3-month span.
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Real-time alerts - get event invites, discounts, specials as your travel past local businesses throughout the day.
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Our location-based chatrooms are pinned on our map allowing you to finally connect with people in that specific location.

Our Team

I was sitting one day in the King of Prussia food court in King of Prussia, PA. I didn't understand why I couldn't easily connect with people in this food court. That's how I thought about this idea and I wanted to create a platform that focuses on a specific location and gives the user the opportunity to connect with others in that location.


The Story of Clava

We started in January 2018, there have been many ups and downs throughout this journey and we've learned so much along the way. 

We decided to change our name in June 2019 from Chad to Clava. Our team felt that Clava related more to our brand. The word Clava means "club" in Latin and users will be creating their own "clubs" inside of Clava through our chatrooms.

2020 Startups & The Batchery

The Batchery
2020 startups

We graduated from two accelerators 2020 Startups & The Batchery. The Batchery & 2020 Startups helped our team develop our pitch deck and narrow down our streams of revenue.

Dec. 2018 Release: In 3 months, we got 1000+ users

3 months and 15 reviews!


We released the first version of Chad in the App & Google Play stores. The goal was to see if we could drive a small number of users into the app and see if they were interested in what we were trying to do. 

Our team was able to get 800+ users into Chad through word of mouth over a 3-month span. The users provided so much feedback that we had to put it all in an excel spreadsheet! 

Update 180 is released.

With the release of this update our name has officially been changed to Clava. 

With the release of update 180, we've been able to get our first paying customers. The best part about these customers is that we were able to bring these companies on board before we even released our update. 

They're even helping us by promoting Clava in their businesses to increase their ROI for using our platform.

    What are Real-time alerts?



    Let's say a Brewery wants to spread awareness about their happy hour every Friday at 5 PM. 

    Our team can create a geofence around their Brewery and add a promotional message that might something like "Hey! We're having a happy hour this Friday and we're offering 50% off all drinks."

    As Clava users travel past this Brewery they will collect this "real-time" alert and it will get placed in their Alerts page. Users can open their alert page throughout the day to see what they've collected, these alerts will contain event/party invites, discounts, specials and more.

    When a user taps an alert they enter that businesses chatroom where they can connect directly with the business, learn more about the business and get directions to where the business is located.

    Use of funds.

    We're raising funds because we need help getting to the next level of scalability. We've bootstrapped a large chunk of our own funds into Clava over the past two years. 

    Now that we have the traction and an app that is built to scale we want to use these funds to market Clava, bring another member on board full-time and help support server costs.

    With the funds, we raise our team is confident we can hit at least 50,000 daily active users. The more active users we have the quicker we grow as a social network.

    Grand Vision

    We believe we're offering a platform/service people don't even know they need yet. This idea started sitting in the King of Prussia Mall food court in King of Prussia, PA. I was asking myself why can't I connect with people in this same exact food court as

    With our location-based chatrooms, it allows people to hone in on a location and connect with people in that specific area. 

    We're aware that there are things similar to what we're doing with real-time alerts,  the difference is we're building an ecosystem and they're just a service. Clava is a social network that is meant to help you connect with people in a specific location and to discover things to do around you.

    Our goal is to be one of the biggest location-focused social media apps in the world. We plan on doing this by creating a beautifully designed product and features that can help the user connect with others no matter where they're located.


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