Keep pulling the thread on Shreya Murthy.
Partiful has a strict policy against ever selling user data.
Partiful's long-term vision is to expand beyond private parties to become the platform that powers all real-world social activities among friends.
Partiful's next strategic focus for this year is to build features that support recurring communities, such as book clubs or volunteer groups, beyond facilitating one-off events.
Face-to-face socializing among teenagers dropped by 50% between 2003 and the present day.
Partiful has millions of users across more than 100 countries.
The HBO television show 'The Pit' recently featured a name-drop of the event platform Partiful.
Shreya Murthy describes Partiful's pre-seed fundraising process as difficult, stating that investors were hesitant to fund a 'party startup' founded by two young women.
During the early COVID-19 pandemic, Partiful developed safety features including mandatory temperature checks, testing requirements, quarantine mandates, and mask requirements for events.
Partiful began its initial user rollout in the summer of 2021 by sharing the product exclusively with the founders' friends.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual event startups raised hundreds of millions of dollars at high valuations.
Shreya Murthy asserts that brain scan heat maps show significantly more activity, turning 'bright red', when a person makes eye contact compared to looking at a phone, indicating a neurological basis for in-person connection.
Apple launched a competing product called Apple Invites approximately a year ago.