irrive

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Irrive was a New York social scrapbooking startup founded by Steven Cohn, whose previous startup BuyYourFriendADrink was acquired by LivingSocial in 2009. Irrive automatically organized content from networks like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare and Flickr into attractive virtual scrapbooks centered on life events — vacations, holidays, weddings, parties. Backed by $2 million in seed funding from angels including David Rosenblatt, Jeff Epstein and Konrad Felman, it entered private beta in May 2012 and launched publicly in September 2012. No failure event has been reported.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

1. 2012
   Company founded and private beta

   Steven Cohn begins work on Irrive; the social scrapbooking service enters private beta in May 2012, backed by $2 million in seed funding.

2. 2012
   Public launch

   Irrive launches publicly as a collaborative social scrapbook service that turns social photos and checkins into an instant trip scrapbook.