Profoundly & NearGroup

NearGroup is social+dating product, which believes humans are much more than their pics and selfies Our users write beautiful & honest stories to get private-chat request from nearby users. But only during private-chat their profile & image unblurs slowly as they chat longer NearGroup is a chatbot on FB messenger (no app needed): http://m.me/NearGroup NearGroup is experiencing extraordinary growth with 600K new-users joining every month (total 2.6M users) & 20-25M messages exchanged per day. NearGroup recently completed 2 billion messages exchanged between users. It took NearGroup 8 months to achieve 1 billion messages. However next 1 billion came within 45 days NearGroup has successfully raised $1.6M seed round by OpenOcean, Neotribe & BoostVC. The company was founded in 2016 by Prashant Pitti, graduate from IIT Madras, who earlier served as Director at India’s 5th largest travel portal EaseMyTrip.com Psychology behind NearGroup 1. It’s proven that people are much more forgiving to physical flaws of others when they are able to include other criteria like intelligence and humour into the picture 2. We are transforming the social and dating culture in many countries where having an open-dating profile can put you in trouble. That especially applies to girls and LGBT individuals