Fizz

United States - Palo Alto, California

• 11/08/2023
• Series B
• $25,000,000

Fizz is a private and authenticated platform designed to revolutionize the social fabric of communities, starting with colleges. After verifying a university email address, students use Fizz to post questions, memes, polls, and chat directly with other verified students, all while maintaining full control of their identity and privacy. Fizz communities are safe, authentic, and inclusive, made possible through community-based moderation.

Launched by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding into colleges all across the US. In a time when social media is plagued by curated highlight reals and lack of authenticity, Fizz is on a mission to redefine the definition of a true social network.

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Rakesh MathurFounder

United States - Palo Alto, California

Rakesh is a serial entrepreneur and start up investor. His track record includes:
o Co-founding 10 start-ups, of which 6 were sold to major technology companies. The current value of the equity for which these acquisitions were done is in the several tens of billions of dollars. Of these, Junglee was the first acquisition done by Amazon.
o Gupshup.io, a B2B messaging platform, he cofounded, and H2O.ai, an open-source AI platform, for which he was a Series A lead investor, are Unicorns.
o Percipient.ai and Whiterabbit.ai are late-stage AI startups, disrupting the intelligence and cancer detection spaces.
o Members of the Junglee team have been involved in the founding, early-stage funding, and leadership of several of the most important technology companies.
o Fizz, his latest startup is an anonymous, moderated social media network launched at Stanford in August 2021 by Stanford sophomores which creates safe, authentic, and fun communities. The product has saturated the undergraduate user base at Stanford in one quarter.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathurrakesh/