Avocado is the world's best way to keep in touch with the most important person in your life. Now available for iPhone, Android, and the Web. It's being carefully cultivated by a small group of software entrepreneurs with senior engineering & product experience from previous jobs at Google, Twitter, YouTube, Thing Labs & elsewhere.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $850K
Founded date: 2012
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 30.05.2020 | Baseline V... | baselinev.... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.09.2013 | - | $850K | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.05.2014 | HowAboutWe’s new messaging app for couples takes off | HowAboutWe‘s budding messaging app for lovers, You&Me, could eclipse the competition. Best known for its dating subscription services, HowAboutWe originally launched with a focus on singles. You&Me is the relationship-centric startu... |
| 09.02.2014 | Between, A Couples App, Pairs Up With Japanese Mobile Giant DeNA | Korean startup VCNC has received a strategic investment from Japanese Internet giant DeNA to turn its couples app Between into an open platform for third-party developers. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. DeNA (pronounced D-N-A) is... |
| 06.04.2013 | Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. We dubbed it “our Christmas,” the day when all our good engineering deeds would pay off and we’d be rewarded with a bounty of happy act... |
| 11.02.2013 | Couples Apps, Please Stop Mating And Start Consolidating | Someone please make them stop. I know it’s nearly Valentine’s Day, but, couples apps: Enough already. You’re making me want a divorce, and I’m not even married. There aren’t enough lovelorn long-distance teenagers in existence to sustain th... |
| 04.02.2013 | Pair couples with Cupple to become Couple | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. I knew I was dating a tech nerd when he invited me to join a couples app. I resisted for a while, but ultimately broke down upon realiz... |
| 02.02.2013 | Pair, The Mobile App For Two, Buys UK’s Cupple And Rebrands As Couple | Tenthbit, the Y Combinator-backed mobile app studio behind the couples app Pair, is doubling down (literally) on its business ambitions: The company today is announcing that it has bought Cupple, a UK-based rival mobile app for two people o... |
| 28.11.2012 | Couples App Avocado Adds A Shared Calendar And Switches To A Freemium, Subscription-Based Business Model | We’ve been covering couples app Avocado since launch, and in that time, it’s released a couple of neat features, including the ability to add photos to to-do lists and the release of an API that can be used by other couples app makers. But ... |
| 07.08.2012 | Avocado Founders Unleash Guacamole, An API Just For Couples Apps | About six weeks ago, I wrote about Avocado, a new mobile app that lets couples share photos, to-do lists, and exchange messages with each other. The app was created by a couple of ex-Googlers, who had raised a $1.3 million seed round from B... |
| 20.06.2012 | Ex-Googlers Launch Avocado, An App For Couples Backed By Baseline, General Catalyst, And Lightspeed | There’s a growing market for mobile apps designed to help couples stay closer. The phenomenon first came to my attention with the launch of Pair at Y Combinator’s most recent demo day. But since then, I’ve seen a whole bunch of new apps pop... |