SocialRadar is a mobile, location-based people-discovery app that emphasizes showing how you know nearby people (e.g., coworkers, college classmates) rather than a plain list of names. The app offers granular privacy controls (share with all, friends only, or stay anonymous), options to run in background or not, and customizable alerts to reduce unwanted notifications. It aims to address battery-drain and privacy pain points that affected earlier location-based people-finder apps. The company is led by founder and CEO Michael Chasen, the former co-founder and CEO of Blackboard. SocialRadar is a 10-person team based in Washington, D.C., was formally founded about eight weeks before the article, and had its iPhone beta slated to arrive in a couple of weeks. The product’s technology had been in development longer than the formal company existence, per the article.

Total raised

$13M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jun 2013