Bunch
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Bunch was a Montreal-based social platform for topic-based discussion, co-founded and led by CEO Andrew Sider. Instead of connecting people around friends, it organized online conversation around shared passions: users signed in with Facebook and joined up to three 'bunches' - topic communities like baking or tattoos - with features such as a minimum comment length to encourage substantive, civil discussion. It launched publicly in June 2013 with an iPhone app after a closed beta of about 20,000 users who had created over 50 communities, and raised $1 million from Real Ventures, 500 Startups, BDC Venture Capital, Round13 Capital and angel investors.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Closed beta
Bunch ran a closed beta with about 20,000 users who created over 50 topic communities.
- Public launch and $1M funding
Bunch launched publicly in June 2013 with its iPhone app and announced $1 million in funding from Real Ventures, 500 Startups, BDC Venture Capital, Round13 Capital and angels. No reliable public account of a closure or its reasons was found; the event remains undocumented.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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