Poppin

What Poppin does

Poppin is a Los Angeles-based, privately held consumer technology company founded in 2021 that operates a social media application designed to facilitate discovery of parties and events in a user's local area. The product is explicitly positioned as an "anti-social media" experience — a platform whose stated purpose is to move people off their phones and into real-world gatherings, in contrast to the passive consumption model of mainstream social networks. The company's only documented public-facing asset is its website (joinpoppin.com) carrying the tagline "Find Parties & Events Near You," indicating a location-driven, two-sided marketplace construct between event-goers and event hosts.

The underlying technology and product surface are not disclosed in detail in the available material; no product modules, APIs, SDKs, integrations, AI/ML components, or proprietary features are documented. The company is small (1-10 employees) and early-stage, with no app-store presence, revenue model, pricing, or customer segments captured in the source data. The operating website (joinpoppin.com) is live and accessible, supporting a status of active operations.

The business model is not articulated in the available information — no monetization mechanism (ads, ticketing take-rate, premium subscriptions, partnerships) is documented, and the company appears to be in a pre-revenue or early-monetization phase consistent with its stage and team size. The company has secured a single funding round in December 2023 with participation from consumer-focused venture firms Liquid 2 Ventures and Pear VC, providing the only external capital signal available in the input.

Name

Poppin

Website

https://joinpoppin.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Poppin is a Los Angeles-based consumer mobile app founded in 2021 that helps users discover local parties and events. Positioned as an anti-social-media experience, it targets event-goers and event hosts in a given geographic area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Event Discovery

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Topic/Interest-Based Content Discovery Apps (MPACAKAB)

Keywords

• Event discovery app
• Social events platform
• Party discovery
• Local event finder
• Social networking app

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Core offering

Poppin is a social media mobile application designed to facilitate a seamless event discovery experience, helping users find parties and events in their local area. The platform is built around the explicit goal of getting people off their phones and into real-world social interactions by surfacing nearby events.

Product overview

Poppin is a platform for discovering and finding parties and events in nearby locations. Based on the available source information, only the tagline "Find Parties & Events Near You" is provided, with no additional details about product features, modules, or service offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Poppin Poppin is a social media mobile application designed to help users find parties and events in their local area, with the stated mission of getting people off their phones and into real-world social experiences. It is targeted at individual consumers seeking to discover nearby social gatherings.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: The largest online event ticketing and discovery marketplace. Comparable as a destination for finding local events, but serves a broader, more formal event category (concerts, conferences) rather than informal parties.
• Yelp: A local business discovery platform that includes events and nightlife listings. Comparable in the local-discovery adjacency but not exclusively focused on parties and events.
• Instagram: Meta's photo and video social network that increasingly surfaces local events, restaurants, and activities via Maps and Explore. Indirect competitor because event discovery is a feature inside a much broader social platform.
• Meetup: An established platform for finding and organizing local group events and gatherings. Operates in the same local-event discovery category but skews older and interest-group based rather than party-focused.

Emerging players

• Dice: A live-events discovery and ticketing app focused on electronic music, concerts, and club nights. Comparable as a mobile-first local-events discovery app targeting nightlife-oriented consumers.
• Bandsintown: A concert and live-music event discovery app using location and listening data to surface nearby shows. Comparable as a vertical local-event discovery app, though narrower in scope to live music.

Direct peers

• Posh: A mobile-first nightlife and event discovery app focused on clubs, parties, and social experiences. Directly comparable as a consumer app helping users find nearby social events, particularly in the nightlife vertical.
• Partiful: A social event invitation and discovery platform targeting younger nightlife and house-party users with a similar mobile-first, invite-driven UX. Most directly comparable as both are mobile-first consumer apps focused on getting people to offline social events.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/JoinPoppin

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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