Spot offers an iOS application designed to surface the best food, coffee, drink and other venue recommendations in any city. The platform aggregates expert reviews from sources such as Zagat and Thrillist, while also analyzing broader web discussions to rank locations, aiming to "do for the real world what Google has done for the web." Users can save venues, create narrative-style lists and follow friends to see which places they have bookmarked, making social discovery central to the experience. During beta testing, the team found that list creation became a core, highly engaging feature. The company emerged from Garrett Camp’s startup studio Expa and is now publicly available on iOS, with Android sign-ups open in advance of a future release. To support its launch and product development, Spot has secured $2 million in seed funding. No additional operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2016