The Fridge provides private, group-based social spaces where members can share photos, links, and status updates using a simple, Facebook-like stream and publisher. Groups are invite-only via private links and are all-or-nothing: members see everything in a group and outsiders do not even know the group exists. Group creators have basic administrative controls such as booting members and disabling invite links. The site intentionally avoids granular sharing dials and does not use Facebook Connect, relying on private invites instead. Cofounder Austin Chang says the long-term vision is to build a social graph oriented around interests and connections between groups rather than 1-to-1 friend links. The company launched out of Y Combinator and debuted the product publicly in the article’s coverage. The Fridge has closed a seed round of over $500K.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2010