Wildfire - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding

Q: Who invested in Wildfire?

Wildfire has 2 investors including Y Combinator And SkyDeck Berkeley.

Q: When was the last funding round for Wildfire?

Wildfire closed its last funding round on obfuscated from a Seed round.

Q: How much funding has Wildfire raised to date?

Wildfire has raised obfuscated.

Overview

Wildfire

Total Funding

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Recent Milestones

Raised Funding Round

Jan 1, 1970

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About Wildfire

CB Rank

91202

Wildfire quickly grew beyond a campus safety tool to a social news app, which empowered people to spread the word quickly.

Acquired by

Opendoor Technologies

Founded

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Private

Seed

San Francisco, California, United States

1-10

getwildfire.com

Apps

Consumer

Social

Software

Funding Rounds

Seed

OBF

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Non-equity Assistance

OBF

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Key People

Tim Hyon: Co-Founder

Details

Operating Status

Closed

Company Type

For Profit

Founders

Hriday Kemburu, Jay Patel, Tim Hyon, Vinay Ramesh

About the Company

Wildfire was acquired by Opendoor in 2021. Built a social news app for colleges. Sent 65 million alerts to nearly 1 million users over 6 years. Ranked Top 5 in the “News Category” right below Twitter, Reddit, and Nextdoor and above CNN and the New York Times. Selected for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2020.

Raised $3.1m from Accel, Khosla, Y Combinator

(S17), Greylock, Redpoint, The House Fund, Kindred Ventures, Abstract, and Paul Buchheit.

Started Wildfire during my senior year at UC Berkeley with the mission of helping keep communities safer and more informed with real-time safety alerts. Wildfire quickly grew beyond a campus safety tool to a social news app, which empowered people to spread the word quickly to their community when something significant happened nearby.

Contact Email

team@wildfireapp.io

Predictions & Insights

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Financials

Company Funding

Funding Rounds

Investors

Total Funding Amount

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Number of Funding Rounds

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Announced Date	Transaction Name	Number of Investors	Money Raised	Lead Investors	Funding Type
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
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Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

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Number of Funding Rounds

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Announced Date	Transaction Name	Number of Investors	Money Raised	Lead Investors	Funding Type
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
obfuscated obfuscation	Seed Round - Wildfire	1	obfuscated obfuscation	—	Seed
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Investors

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Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Partners
Y Combinator	No	Seed Round - Wildfire	—
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