Bloom: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)
is a YCombinator-backed social and dating app that helps people meet around events. Bloom partners with event organizers to enable attendees to connect and chat before and after events. Bloom members can discover events and people to meet through the app. The team is led by Lauren Vegter, who previously led User Acquisition at Instagram from 700M to past a billion users, launched consumer VR and led social VR at Oculus, and has two MIT degrees. The team has experience from Google, Facebook, Nest, LinkedIn, Ebay/Paypal, and multiple YCombinator-backed startups.
Bloom has raised $2.5M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Seed of $2.5M announced in Sep 2022.
That round is in line with the $2.3M median round size for Community and Lifestyle companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.
Bloom Company Profile and Key Stats
Latest funding round on record: Sep 2022.
Bloom Funding Rounds
Bloom Founders and Leadership Team
Contact details for the Bloom team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.
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Bloom's latest round of $2.5M is in line with the median round in Community and Lifestyle. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.
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Bloom Funding FAQs
What does Bloom do?
is a YCombinator-backed social and dating app that helps people meet around events. Bloom partners with event organizers to enable attendees to connect and chat before and after events. Bloom members can discover events and people to meet through the app. The team is led by Lauren Vegter, who previously led User Acquisition at Instagram from 700M to past a billion users, launched consumer VR and led social VR at Oculus, and has two MIT degrees. The team has experience from Google, Facebook, Nest, LinkedIn, Ebay/Paypal, and multiple YCombinator-backed startups.
How much funding has Bloom raised?
Bloom has raised $2.5M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Seed of $2.5M announced in Sep 2022.
When did Bloom last raise funding?
Bloom's most recent funding round on record is a Seed of $2.5M, announced in Sep 2022.
Who founded Bloom?
FundedIQ lists Lauren Vegter (Founder) at Bloom.
Where is Bloom headquartered?
Bloom is based in Oakland, California, United States.
How many employees does Bloom have?
Bloom is in the 1-10 employee band.
How does Bloom's funding compare to other Community and Lifestyle startups?
Bloom's latest round of $2.5M is in line with the $2.3M median round size for Community and Lifestyle companies on FundedIQ across 1,484 tracked companies over the last two years.
About FundedIQ's Bloom Funding Data
FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.
Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Bloom is left off this page rather than filled in.
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