Withfriends (YC W19)

We raised $50,000 to grow withfriends!

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Published on May 11, 2018

BIG NEWS.  We successfully raised $50,000 to grow withfriends.

To celebrate, we hosted a dinner in Bushwick, Brooklyn last weekend and ate with organizers from Tile Table, Park Church Co-op, Nonsense NY, Rubulad, Brooklyn Kitchen, Cloud City, Powerplant, Freedom Socialist Party, Little Cinema, North Brooklyn Farms, Elsewhere, Ed Varie, and many more. You can browse all their awesome accounts at https://withfriends.co!

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We are here to stay! And we will work hard to bring memberships programs to your favorite venues, art spaces, nightclubs, dinner clubs, community farms, shared kitchen spaces, video game galleries, and all the cultural organizations that you love.

Imagine this - at the end of the year, many of us will participate in nightlife and cultural events and will be able to ask ourselves: Do I want to support this venue that’s like a home to me? This event booker with powerful taste? My favorite underground band? The best record store in New York? This legendary guitar store? My bodega? Punjabi Deli?

And we’ll all have an easy way to buy memberships, which is an affordable tool to make our voices heard, and immediately control the city we live in together.  Soon, places we love will no longer disappear.

This historic shift is thanks to you - you are making this happen, by buying tickets, becoming a member, organizing events, or investing withfriends.

So congrats to all of us!

Now - if you’re paying attention to shutdown news, you know that the clock is ticking for creative life in our cities.  So we’re trying to raise $107K, and up to $350K from our network, right here:

https://wefunder.com/with.friends

If you’ve already participated as an investor, again, thank you 50 million times.

If you’re not yet an investor withfriends, get involved today for as little as $100.  Or as much as $100,000.  Right here:

https://wefunder.com/with.friends

Comment here or reach out with questions, and we’ll be excited to share our vision for withfriends.

Kunal, Joe, Martha