MavenSay is a social recommendation app that surfaces user and influencer recommendations for things like restaurants and music, with an interaction model similar to Pinterest. For its launch the company featured influencers and brands such as Momofuku and Refinery29. The two-month-old app experienced rapid organic growth, recording 130,000 downloads to date and 100,000 downloads over a recent two-week period traced to an influential Indonesian user. That surge has prompted the founders to accelerate plans to engage Southeast Asian users and influencers and to conduct on-the-ground user research to understand cultural differences. The company is led by co-founders Jesse Dallal (Toronto-based), Mike Wagman and Bryan Friedman and operates with a seven-person team. Financially, MavenSay has raised $890,000 in funding so far.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

May 2013