What Balloon does

Balloon is a New York-based, for-profit private company founded in 2014 that, per its firmographic profile, describes itself as a tool that helps users get friends together at a moment's notice — consistent with a consumer social or group-coordination application. The company sits in the 11–50 employee size band, has no public ticker, and lists balloon-app.com as its web property. No product names, features, integrations, technology stack, or platform architecture details are disclosed in the available data set.

The company's go-to-market, pricing, customer segmentation, and revenue mechanics are not documented. The only funding event on record is an August 2014 round listing Dreamit Ventures as an investor with a recorded amount of $0, which typically indicates a SAFE, convertible note, or an unpriced/unrecorded equity value rather than a traditional priced financing with deployed capital. There is no management team roster, no partnership or alliance data, no awards, no patents or trademarks, and no customer logos in the source data.

Material operational signals are weak: the balloon-app.com domain currently resolves to a default Plesk hosting control panel placeholder page rather than a live product or marketing site, and the source data explicitly notes that no substantive company content, legal disclaimers, or investor information is present on the domain. The operating status is recorded as "operating" but the supporting evidence is the domain itself; no app store presence, API, SDK, or active product surface is documented. Taken together, the available data describes a small, privately-held consumer social venture from 2014 with minimal disclosed capital, no observable current product footprint, and no verifiable revenue signal.

Name

Balloon

Website

https://balloon-app.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Balloon is a New York-based private company founded in 2014 that described itself as a tool for coordinating friends at short notice. The firm's website currently displays only a default hosting placeholder, and no active product, pricing, or customer footprint is disclosed.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Consumer Social Mobile App

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Party Games, Activities & Interactive Entertainment (HSACACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Birthday Party Services (HSACACAA)

Keywords

• Social coordination app
• Group meetup software
• Friend gathering app
• Event planning mobile
• Spontaneous social app

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Balloon is a mobile application that helps users get their friends together at a moment's notice, enabling spontaneous social coordination and group meetups. The service is positioned as a for-profit private company headquartered in New York, founded in 2014, with 11-50 employees. No additional functional details, features, or product specifications are available from the source data, as the company's website currently displays only a default Plesk hosting control panel placeholder page.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Balloon app

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

Direct peers

• Punchbowl: Punchbowl offers digital invitations, party planning, and group coordination tools for personal celebrations. It overlaps with Balloon on the social-gathering/party coordination use case.
• Meetup: Meetup is a long-standing platform for organizing and discovering group events around shared interests. It overlaps with Balloon's group-coordination theme, though it skews more toward planned, interest-based meetups than last-minute gatherings.
• Partiful: Partiful is a mobile-first social app for inviting friends to gatherings at short notice, mirroring Balloon's stated value proposition of getting friends together quickly. It is the most directly comparable peer in the spontaneous-events category.
• IRL: IRL was a social app that helped users discover and coordinate real-world events with friends. It is comparable to Balloon as a pure-play social-coordination app, though it ultimately shut down — illustrating the difficulty of this category.
• Evite: Evite is a digital invitation and event-coordination platform used for parties and social gatherings. It competes with Balloon in the friend- and party-event coordination space, though with a heavier tilt toward formal invitations.

Broad incumbents

• Facebook Events: Facebook Events is a native event-coordination feature inside the Facebook/Meta social graph, used by hundreds of millions for invitations and RSVPs. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with Balloon's coordination flow but is not a standalone product.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a large ticketing and event-management platform for organizers of public and private events. It is a broader incumbent that touches group coordination, though its primary wedge is ticketed/professional events rather than casual friend gatherings.
• Apple Invites: Apple Invites is a native iOS event-creation and RSVP experience integrated with the Apple ecosystem. As a platform-level entrant, it represents a structural threat to standalone social-coordination apps like Balloon.

Emerging players

• When2Meet: When2Meet is a lightweight group availability/poll tool used to coordinate friend and group meetings. It serves a narrower slice of the same coordination pain point Balloon addresses.
• Planned: Planned is a social planning app aimed at coordinating group activities and friends' availability. It targets the same casual friend-get-together use case as Balloon, though it leans more toward availability polling than spontaneous invitations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/balloonapp
• Facebookfacebook.com/timeline

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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