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Rae

@raechellambert #196109

Building IRL community at scale on River (used by Tim Ferriss, Solana Foundation). https://getriver.io | For fun:🚴🏻‍♀️💃🏻
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River just raised a $1.6M pre-seed round!

We're building an events platform for global brands to let members from their community host on their behalf.

We're thrilled to partner with Blue Wire Capital, Blockwall, Blockchain Founders Capital, Solana Foundation, Very Early Ventures, and LAUNCH for our pre-seed round.

15 months ago I had an insight while building community for The All-In Podcast. I couldn’t find an event platform that would let fans host their own events without data sharing issues and tons of work.

So Jason Calacanis suggested we build one. He invested along with @balajis.eth

We’re super proud of how much we built this past year with just $150k angel round. Our MVP has powered community events for The All-In Podcast, Bryan Johnson, My First Million, Tim Ferris, Superteam, DeGods, Solana Foundatjon, and more.

We’ve already had over 2,000 events, produced by 3,000 crowd-sourced hosts with 55k attendees.
Brought the River team to hike an overnight up Mount Washington. Spent the night at Lakes of the Clouds hut. Had 2 sunny days in a row!

Team flew in from Austin, Lisboa, Brazil, Warsaw, and Zurich 🗺️
Hey, I’m Rae and I’m figuring out Farcaster. I came on here last fall to pitch my idea for a community-based event platform to @balajis.eth and it actually worked (he invested). (Thanks to @ted for telling me about his AMA in here!)

I’m building IRL community at a massive scale for Solana Foundation, Superteam, All-In, DeGods, Tim Ferris and a bunch more through River, my in-person event and social platform.

I honestly did not set out to start a web3 company (barely understood what web3 was last year) but delightfully, that’s how it’s turned out.

I’ll be sharing the River journey as we go and I’d love to have you follow along.