Bruno Pierre Gebarski's List: Social Network: (Hybrid)

• Meetup, an online-to-offline startup with 11 million members.
• Hybrid social networks are connecting strangers with similar interests online, then directing them to meet in person for dinners, bar-hopping, bowling or biking excursions.
• came across Grubwithus, a startup that enables users to create and attend group meals.
• Grubwithus meals are hosted at restaurants and typically bring together six to 10 people who have never met each other.
• Everyone pays in advance for their meal on the Grubwithus site — the startup generally takes a 20 percent to 30 percent cut of each transaction — so there’s no mulling over the menu or bickering over the tab.
• Grubwithus has tripled its user base since the beginning of the year, with meal reservations growing 15 percent month over month; the company has more than 80,000 subscribers. It launched out of startup accelerator program Y Combinator and has raised $7.6 million in financing from investors including Ashton Kutcher and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
• Grubwithus Chief Executive Eddy Lu
• Another rising tech startup is Grouper

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