Friended is a social networking app that encourages deeper, one-to-one connections by letting users post conversation starters that others reply to privately. The company was started by Thumb co-founder and CEO Dan Kurani and Ben Chow. Friended routes responses into private conversations rather than public thread discussions to foster vulnerability and meaningful exchange. The app has eliminated advertising and is implementing a premium tier priced at $4.99/week that allows unlimited posting and includes features like location-based conversations. Free users are limited to one conversation starter every eight hours. The company reported 500,000 registered users, an average of 11 sessions per day per active user during its beta, and more than 2.5 million messages sent in the prior month, while declining to disclose monthly active user counts.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Nov 2019