What Jeti does

Jeti, Inc. is a US-incorporated, privately held consumer social media company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The company operates a single mobile application — Jeti — that surfaces posts from users within a strict 6–12 mile geofenced radius of the viewer, differentiating itself from global social networks by emphasizing neighborhood- and campus-level conversations. Primary users are general consumers aged 17 and older, with university students and campus communities positioned as a secondary segment; the app supports anonymous posting without an account, account creation for building a local following, two-choice Polls, a city- and university-level Leaderboard ranked by weekly upvotes, and Verified Accounts for public figures and brands.

The app is built as a cross-platform React Native application using the Expo framework, with geolocation as the core signal driving feed assembly. Operational tooling includes Segment and Amplitude for product analytics, Sentry for error monitoring, and GIPHY's library for in-app GIF content. Distribution is entirely through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store; the company offers no public API, no web app, and no developer-facing extensibility layer. Compliance coverage includes DMCA takedown processes and a zero-tolerance child-safety policy with reporting to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

The business model is freemium. The app is free to download, and the only disclosed monetized line item is paid username reservations governed by the Jeti Early Access Username Purchase Terms. Jeti has closed a single pre-seed funding round of $250,000 on July 15, 2020 (investors undisclosed), the company has 11–50 employees, and the app remains in Early Access. Marketing is product-led and minimal: a homepage, a press kit, app-store listings, and a GitBook-hosted Help Center, with no disclosed sales or partnership team.

Name

Jeti

Legal name

Jeti, Inc.

Website

https://jeti.app

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Jeti, Inc. is a US-based, privately held mobile social network that surfaces posts from users within a 6–12 mile radius. Founded in 2020 in Columbus, Ohio, its freemium iOS and Android app serves general consumers aged 17+ and university communities with anonymous posting, Polls, and city/campus Leaderboards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbus

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Username purchases (Early Access): Jeti publishes Username Purchase Terms applicable to Jeti Early Access, indicating that premium/claimed usernames generate revenue. The app itself is distributed free on iOS and Android.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Jeti operates a location-based social media mobile application that surfaces posts from people physically within a 6–12 mile radius of the user, enabling hyperlocal conversation. Users can post anonymously without creating an account, follow local creators, and discover the most active cities and universities through a weekly Leaderboard. The app is distributed free on iOS and Android, with optional paid username reservations as the only disclosed monetization line.

Product overview

Jeti is a single mobile application — not a multi-product platform — that combines hyperlocal social networking with light content tooling. The core Jeti app delivers location-restricted posts within a 6–12 mile radius, and bundles in built-in sub-features such as The Leaderboard (ranking cities and universities by weekly upvotes), Anonymous Posting, Jeti Polls (two-choice questions with configurable voting audience and duration), and Verified Accounts (badging for high-risk-of-impersonation public figures and brands). All of these capabilities are integrated within the one Jeti iOS/Android app rather than being sold as separate modules, and the company does not publish a public API or developer-facing extensibility layer.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jeti Mobile App Cross-platform mobile social networking application for iOS and Android that surfaces posts from users within a 6–12 mile radius, supports anonymous posting without an account, and includes a city and university Leaderboard ranking weekly upvotes. Targeted at consumers aged 17 and older who want to see and share content with people physically nearby.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core distribution channel, core technology dependency, operational tooling, core product feature and safety compliance partner.

• Apple (App Store)core distribution channelChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJeti is published on the Apple App Store under app id1523579231. The App Store is Jeti's primary iOS distribution surface and the App Store link is featured on the homepage and Help Center.
• Google (Google Play)core distribution channelChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJeti is published on Google Play under package id app.jeti. Google Play is Jeti's primary Android distribution surface and the listing is linked from the homepage.
• Expocore technology dependencyTechnology or IntegrationExpo is listed as a third-party service provider in Jeti's Privacy Policy, indicating the Jeti mobile app is built on the Expo (React Native) framework.
• Sentryoperational toolingTechnology or IntegrationSentry is listed as a third-party service provider in Jeti's Privacy Policy, providing error monitoring and performance metrics for the app.
• Segmentoperational toolingTechnology or IntegrationSegment is listed as a third-party service provider in Jeti's Privacy Policy, used for collecting product analytics and user-event data.
• Amplitudeoperational toolingTechnology or IntegrationAmplitude is listed as a third-party service provider in Jeti's Privacy Policy, used for product analytics, metrics, and research.
• GIPHYcore product featureTechnology or IntegrationPer the v1.2 changelog (August 12, 2020), Jeti integrated GIPHY's library of GIFs so users can attach GIFs when replying to comments on a post.
• GitBookoperational toolingTechnology or IntegrationJeti's Help Center documentation is hosted on GitBook, which is referenced as the documentation platform powering help.jeti.app.
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)safety compliance partnerOthersJeti has a zero-tolerance policy on child sexual exploitation content and will report such content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) via its CyberTipline, in compliance with applicable law.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Citizen: Citizen is a real-time local safety and awareness app that pushes hyperlocal incident notifications to nearby users; it overlaps Jeti's "raise awareness of nearby issues" use case with a more safety-incident-focused feed and a paid Protect subscription tier.
• Nextdoor: Nextdoor is a neighborhood-scale social network that surfaces posts from people who live nearby — the closest direct competitor to Jeti's hyperlocal 6-12 mile feed, though it requires verified addresses and lacks Jeti's anonymous posting and university-leaderboard gamification.
• Yik Yak: Yik Yak (relaunched in 2021) is a location-based anonymous social app heavily used on college campuses, competing head-on with Jeti for the university segment and the anonymous-local-post format, though Yik Yak uses a wider radius and account-required model.

Emerging players

• Geneva: Geneva is a group-chat social app organized around interest-based and local "spaces" (including university and city groups); it competes with Jeti's community-formation thesis through a chat-first model rather than a public post feed.
• LMK (formerly Yolo): LMK enables anonymous Q&A and confessions inside Snapchat, intersecting Jeti's "ask for advice" and anonymous-posting use cases but distributed as a Snap Kit integration rather than a stand-alone location-restricted feed.
• IRL (social network): IRL is a mobile social app that groups users into interest- and event-based communities, with historical overlap to Jeti's local-event and university community use cases before its 2023 fraud controversy; relevant as a comparable community-led mobile social network.
• Juno (college social): Juno is a college-only social networking app built around campus communities and student feeds, directly comparable to Jeti's university Leaderboard segment though without Jeti's anonymous or geo-radius mechanics.
• Gas (Polymarket/Discord-era teen polling app): Gas (formerly TBH) is a polling-style social app targeting teens and college students with lightweight, anonymous-by-design interaction; it overlaps Jeti's polls feature and university audience but lacks Jeti's strict geographic radius.

Broad incumbents

• Reddit: Reddit's city- and university-specific subreddits (e.g., r/Columbus, r/[university]) serve a hyperlocal-community use case comparable to Jeti, but at a much larger scale and without strict geo-fencing or anonymous onboarding.
• Foursquare / Citysocial / Swarm: Foursquare and its Swarm check-in app pioneer location-based social, and Foursquare's Places API underpins many geo features in consumer apps; it overlaps with Jeti's location-data approach as a broad incumbent in geo-social rather than a direct feed competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/jetiapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jeti-inc

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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