Great news recently!

Welcoming Ruca.vc withfriends

We're proud to announce we have an investment from a VC called Ruca (http://ruca.vc), who alongside their investment, bring on board a great team of partners.

Our thoughts and how cool that is here:

Sol Sender is a brand strategist who created the Obama campaign logo,

Dimitri Syrkin-Nikolau is a small business owner who runs a pizza shop in chicago -
(exactly the independently owned culture that we built withfriends to support!)

An Nguyen is an awesome technologist who founded Dorm Room Fund at First Round, and now Ruca

Chris Bystrom is a founder who has extensive experience working with enterprise customers and can help us in our work with large music venues

That's just half the Ruca team. Proud to have them on board the investment community withfriends!

It's never too early to build an accountable technology company.

When we build infrastructure without deliberating who it is for, it reflects and amplifies inequalities in society. Learn how Withfriends is making conscious, strategic decisions about how to build an accountable, transparent technology company here:

https://medium.com/@withfriends/making-values-visible-887c1ee187a9 

Now Hiring - Senior Software Engineer

We're hiring a senior software engineer to join our team (with two technical co-founders).  Please share this description with anyone you think is a good fit!

Withfriends - Senior Software Engineer

Creative Footprint

We were invited by a group called Creative Footprint out of Berlin, in partnership with the former "Night Mayor" of Amsterdam, to produce a write up of policy recommendations to preserve and support independent culture especially in New York.  We're also having these conversations directly with city officials!

IRL withfriends

We had a great 250 cap event (had to close it off) last Monday with Matt Mehlan and influential attendees including the night mayor.  And then we had a badass meeting with a new powerhouse of underground arts culture in New York, councilmember Espinal

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl5pSVwFesB/?taken-by=fonezone

Great to meet all of you there! The next event will be on eptember 30th at Rubulad, celebrating our 1-year anniversary, and more. Stay tuned!

Investing withfriends

We are trying to create a future for our cities full of vibrant, diverse and independently owned culture. The best art spaces, music venues, record stores, restaurant, in our cities may disappear quickly. Investing in our Withfriends is the best way to intervene by getting involved in a solution right now.

Most of you reading this are already our investors.  Thank you for joining our investment community, it's an honor to have you on board with us.

Now, we’re aiming to break $100K on the Wefunder page in the next 30 days.  Will you help us get there?

Do you know anyone who will invest alongside you in a company that will help diverse and independent culture thrive in gentrifying cities?  

Please share the our campaign with them (https://wefunder.com/withfriends) and let them know why you personally made the decision to join us. That could make a big difference in our raise.

Are you are convinced by our powerful progress to date?

Please increase the size of your investment today! You can do so at any time here on Wefunder.

Thanks for being an awesome and supportive network.

- Kunal, Martha, and Joe