Bunch offers a mobile app positioned as an "AI coach" that delivers daily, short-form tips and tailors content to individual users and leadership goals. The company partnered with academics to define leadership-style archetypes that underpin its content and personalization. Bunch launched its service in November and reported roughly 13,000 signups by the start of the year, growing to nearly 20,000 users at the time of the article. The startup shifted from an earlier product direction (described in 2017 as analytics for company culture) to focus on individual leadership learning. Bunch plans to add community and peer-review features and expand into other content categories while concentrating on its initial niche. It intends to monetize via a freemium model to drive retention and longer-term engagement. Bunch is a party app for multiplayer games that enables players to connect with friends over video chat and jump into their favorite games. Developers can integrate Bunch into their own games to boost engagement by letting players party up and play together. The product is inspired by LAN parties and delivers that experience on smartphones and tablets. Since March 2020 the app saw rapid adoption, growing more than 50 times in monthly active users and expanding its audience to include millennial players who are 60% female. The company will use its Series A funding to grow its user base and accelerate integrations with popular multiplayer games. Bunch is co‑founded by Selcuk Atli, Jason Liang, and Jordan Howlett and has offices in New York and Toronto. Bunch runs a SaaS platform called Team Analytics that plugs into a company’s Slack public channels and analyzes communication to produce real-time overviews of morale, collaboration, psychological safety and related KPIs. The company says these overviews are based on “scientifically valid KPIs” tied to team performance and do not require employee surveys. Bunch also added Teams at Work, a hub for leaders to connect with peers and share best practices. The product launched in May and emphasizes community-driven use where users discuss findings within their organizations. Bunch plans to use its new seed funding to expand into the US market. The company positions itself to become a leader in “collaboration intelligence” bridging management science and everyday leadership practice. Bunch provides an in-game video and voice chat layer for mobile titles, letting friends sync up and talk while playing. Its SDK is used by developers and works with hits like Fortnite and Roblox, and developers of games like Spaceteam are integrating deeper features. The app supports group voice or video chat for up to eight players and can enable advanced behaviors such as pinning friends’ faces to in-game characters when developers build in the SDK. Bunch launched its app in March and has already cracked the top 100 social iOS chart, with a planned Android launch. It is not monetizing yet but plans to sell expression tools like emotes and voice/video filters. The company intends to use new funding to add features (meeting new people, sharing replays) and to ramp user acquisition and developer partnerships. Bunch provides a platform that calculates optimal team makeups, measures each member’s impact on team dynamics, and delivers actionable recommendations to improve team performance. Users and candidates complete an online questionnaire based on the Organizational Culture Profiling method developed at Stanford University, producing profiles across six dimensions: customer-orientation, results-orientation, collaboration, detail-orientation, focus on principles, and adaptability. Employees, teams, and departments can experiment with different team setups using those profiles, and a Slack integration enables continuous, real-time monitoring of team culture. Launched in September 2017 and based in Berlin, the company has been tested by more than 1,000 companies, with customers including N26, Fraunhofer, and Digital Ocean. Bunch is led by CEO Darja Gutnick alongside Charles Ahmadzadeh and Anthony Reo and currently operates a 10-person team. The company intends to use the new funding to continue product development, expand the team, and grow sales.

Total raised

$30M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2021