Wednesdays
Meetup for mealtimes or GrubWithUs for Organizations. Dinner/lunch clubs for professional networks, alumni groups, colleagues, and friends.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Consumer Products
- Location San Francisco, CA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded January 2011
- Employees 4
- Website wednesdays.com
Company Summary
Wednesdays.com is the easiest way for organizations to create their own lunch or dinner club. It's like Meetup for mealtimes or GrubWithUs for affiliate groups.
We finished a pilot with 5,000 lunch invitations. We are unit profitable. RSVP rates are the highest of the industry: 12%. Customers are telling us that cannot live without us.
We are now ready to scale and become #1 in the $10B social meals market.
Team
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Todd KincaideVP Business DevelopmentVC associate at New World Ventures, Co-founder of Suggenda.com. Strong Marketing and BD skills. Obsessed with restaurants.
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Hugh OlliphantCEO & Co-founderCo-founder & CEO of Wednesdays. Co-founder, gMoney (sold IP to PayPal); Ran Enterprise Product and later Labs for PayPal.
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Andrew Dali ChenCTO & Co-founderPreviously founded 11 Strong. Tech lead for eBay Checkout at PayPal which accounted for 60% of PayPal revenues!
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Alain RaynaudMarketing / ProductCo-founder of LetsLunch, co-founder of EVE-USA ($40M revenue, 3 rounds of funding), organizer of the Startup Conference, director of the Founder Institute FR
Advisors
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Sam Angus, Fenwick and WestLawyerUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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500 Startups Accelerator ProgramUnconfirmed
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