Wigo is a Boston-based mobile app that lets college students find parties and meet new people. The app positions itself as the "who's going out" service that helps students quickly figure out who is going out and where. Wigo emphasizes replacing group texts and Facebook events as ways to make plans. It uses a student-only filter to block town residents, adults and other non-students. The company has recently raised venture funding, indicating early-stage external financing activity. No operating metrics or revenue figures are disclosed in the article. WiGo (Who Is Going Out?) is a mobile app that verifies users via .edu email addresses and connects them to school-wide networks so students can post where they’re going and invite friends. The app includes a ‘tap’ feature to send push notifications to specific users and in-app chat; all content is wiped each morning though certain event data is retained for machine‑learning purposes. WiGo focuses on exclusive, campus-by-campus growth and unlocks each school only after reaching a size-based threshold to reach critical mass. The company emphasizes user experience over monetization for now and is not pursuing revenue at this stage. WiGo has been downloaded at over 1,100 campuses with about 200 currently activated; the largest activated campus is the University of Maryland (27,000 undergrads) where roughly 10% of students are using the platform. Founder Ben Kaplan cites the app’s focus on simple communication and college-only networks as its differentiator from previous social planning products.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Feb 2015