Wizi created FacesIn, a social location app that has pivoted from real-time check-ins to delivering predictive, location-based alerts about where people of interest will be in the near future. The app parses public data and social postings (CrunchBase, AngelList, Eventbrite, Twitter) and uses NLP and machine learning to infer relevancy and limit notifications. Initial target users are the startup ecosystem—entrepreneurs and investors—with curated “VIP” lists and relevance scoring; the team plans to broaden monetization toward salespeople. FacesIn runs invisibly in the background, aims for a maximum of two notifications per day, and asks users for feedback to tune its algorithms. The company previously built carrier-facing Foursquare-like apps (e.g., Vodafone Radar, which garnered around half a million downloads) and sees carrier work as slow, motivating the pivot. An iOS version is planned for Q2–Q3 this year.

Total raised

$1M

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Feb 2015