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Verse

Winter 2022 · Active

Social network based on who you are, not what you look like

Location: New York, US

Founded: 2021

Team size: 5

About

Verse is one of the fastest platforms ever to reach over 10 million users. We're building a home on the internet for Gen Z to showcase their identity and keep up with their friends in novel and creative ways.

Founders

  • Bobby PinckneyFounder

    Bobby is the co-founder and CEO of multiple consumer apps including Verse, one of the fastest social platforms of all time to reach over 10M users, and Discz, which Rolling Stone called "one of the hottest music apps in the world." He is a Forbes 30 under 30 lister, Y Combinator alumni, and his ventures have been backed by multiple of the top venture capital firms.

  • Michelle YinFounder

    Michelle is the co-founder and CTO of Verse. She also started Discz, a music platform with over 1.5M users which Rolling Stone called "one of the hottest in the world". Previously, she was a senior engineer at Meta working on zero to one initiatives at NPE, and WhatsApp.