Shapr offers a professional networking app that asks users to select up to ten interests and then uses a proprietary algorithm to curate a daily selection of 15 profiles. The app is available for iOS and Android as a free product. Shapr reports over half a million users and generated more than 3 million professional matches in 2017 alone. Led by CEO and Co‑Founder Ludovic Huraux, the company operates from Paris and New York. Planned product developments include Shapr Premium, launching before the end of the year, which will allow browsing up to 50 profiles per day and include manual location settings; additional features will be announced later. The company will use the new funding to hire 15 employees across its Paris and New York offices over the next 12 months. Shapr is a mobile-first professional networking app that lets users select an "Inner Circle" of up to 50 trusted contacts and share those connections. The app provides five daily introductions which users can accept or reject via swipe gestures, and includes a public "Shapeline" feed for collaborative posts and opportunities. It is built atop LinkedIn's platform and the founders position it as a complement to LinkedIn, though reliance on LinkedIn's API could pose risks. The app is available as a free download on iOS and Android. Shapr was founded in mid-2014 and operates from New York and Paris with a 13-person full-time team. The company recently raised seed funding to continue developing the product and growing its user base.

Total raised

$13M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2017