Launched in 2020, Bach offers an iOS and Android app that helps groups discover, plan and book trips end-to-end. Users can invite friends, chat, decide on locations based on costs and interests, assemble itineraries, and track expenses with an expense-splitting feature. The app also includes a curated marketplace of local experiences bookable through the platform. Bach currently provides experiences in major U.S. destinations such as Scottsdale, Nashville and Las Vegas and plans to be available in 30 cities by the end of Q1 2023. The company is approaching 500,000 parties planned and two million users, and has doubled bookable experiences from 800 to over 1,600 with a target of 3,000 in 2023. Bach is launching a web marketplace next month and aims to use recent funding to make strategic hires and expand the platform beyond bachelorette parties. Bach is a NYC-based marketplace and iOS app for bachelor and bachelorette trips that lets groups discover, decide, and plan in one place. The platform includes group chat, expense splitting, polling, and itinerary creation, and enables booking by integrating with local providers. Offerings bookable through the app range from private chefs and Instagram mural tours to goat yoga, ATV excursions, party buses and yacht charters. The company is led by CEO Mike Petrakis and COO Sarah Sprague. Bach raised USD8M in funding and Corazon Capital partner Phil Schwarz has joined the company’s board. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. BACH is a mobile-first platform that centralizes planning and booking tools for bachelor and bachelorette parties, offering shared itineraries, group chat, polls, expense-splitting, and a marketplace of bookable local experiences. Founder Mike Petrakis began building the product in 2019, launching just before the COVID-19 pandemic and rereleasing the app in January 2021. In its first few months in 2020 the app saw 100,000 users, and traffic grew tenfold after the 2021 rerelease. The product is built with React and React Native on the frontend and JavaScript/Node.js on the backend; it currently exists only as an app with a desktop version likely coming. BACH has about 20 full-time employees, operates mostly remotely with several staff in the Philadelphia area, and occasionally uses Fitler Club’s Offsite coworking space for in-person work. The company has raised $4 million in seed funding since origination and is raising to expand the team and address supply-side challenges as it pursues becoming a leading platform for group travel.

Total raised

$21M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2023