• WiGo

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2015

  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.

• Lineage Labs

  Led · Seed · Feb 2015

  Lineage Labs is a Boston-based startup that makes Bevy, a 1 TB home storage drive and companion desktop (Mac, Windows) and mobile (iOS) software for family photo and video backup, organization and viewing. The Bevy drive sits in the home entertainment center, plugs into the TV for display, accepts SD cards and USB drives, and can be expanded by adding additional USB hard drives. At launch the Bevy bundle is priced at $249 (planned retail $349) and the company offers an optional $59/year cloud backup service that copies content from the drive to private cloud storage. Lineage Labs plans future storage tiers beyond 1 TB and intends to add automated curation and integrations to pull in photos from other sources like Facebook. The product targets multi-user households that want local, private storage as an alternative to services like iCloud, Google Drive and competitors such as Lyve and Odysee. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Firdaus Bhathena and co-founder Nancy Dussault Smith; it is launching via pre-orders and expects to ship by October.

No current team members are available.