INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Social planning apps are a dime a dozen, but none have risen to become a mainstay in our digital lives
IRL, founded by Abe Shafi and Scott Banister, is looking to break the pattern, focusing on positivity to get people excited about hanging
at which point the group comes up with the right time and place for the plans.According to cofounder and CEO Abe Shafi, the structure of IRL
decide what they want to do
Shafi sold his startup GetTalent to Dice in 2013
Shafi said that one of the difficulties in enterprise software was that he felt less and less connected to the problems he was solving, and
In fact, Shafi first launched an app called Gather, which we wrote about in early 2017.Gather did an incredibly poor job of notifying users
when it was sending out texts to their friends and contacts to join the app
But IRL has done a much better job of clarifying any step or action that might initiate a text send to a contact off the app.Today, IRL
launches its Android app, which you can find in the Google Play store.IRL has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Floodgate and
