IRL Raises $170M in Series C Funding; Valued at $1.17 Billion
- IRL, a San Francisco, CA-based group messaging social network, raised $170M in Series C funding
- The round, which brought company’s total funding to more than $200M to-date, was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2
- The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow its team and expand its user base internationally
- The company is a group messaging social network that brings people together through events and shared experiences
- Since launching in 2019, the network now coordinates two million events per day
- Users have spent over 300 million hours together through the app and clocked more than one billion messages sent
