Kumbuya is a community transaction system that allows users to create tribes based on blogs or specific topics where tribe leaders approve sellers and members can post items for sale. The platform gives influencers and community owners control over which businesses can market to their members and shares revenue equally with tribe leaders. Creators can embed their tribes on their own websites, and Kumbuya restricts advertising to direct sales links rather than general display ads. The company plans to aggregate similar topics together and sell access to those grouped audiences to businesses. Kumbuya emerged from Josh Karp’s work on The Printed Blog to provide writers and community owners with monetization and control that incumbent social networks do not offer. The site had been live for 54 days at the time of the article and reported impressive early growth across tribes ranging from fitness to niche communities like “Polski’Z.” Financially, Kumbuya has raised $550,000 to date in two rounds from private investors.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Nov 2012