Block Party is a consumer app that tackles online harassment and puts you back in control. Join the waitlist!
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Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $4.8M
Founded date: 2018
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Brighter C... | brighterca... |
| - | Alpine Ven... | alpine.vc |
| - | Dream Mach... | dreammachi... |
| - | Mozilla Ve... | mozilla.vc |
| - | Homebrew | homebrew.c... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 21.09.2022 | Seed | $4.8M | - |
Mentions in press and media 20
| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.03.2024 | Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Murthy, Reddit, and the Speech Deciders | Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, or your podcast app of cho... |
| 11.03.2024 | After losing access to Twitter’s API, Block Party pivots to privacy | Block Party, a startup developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, was among the victims of Twitter’s (now X’s) API changes earlier this year, forcing it to pivot its business. At the SXSW conference in Austin thi... |
| 21.11.2023 | Mozilla Ventures Invests in Sendmarc, Global Leader in Email and Domain Security | The investment will help Sendmarc provide essential DMARC protection to thousands of customers around the world (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023) – Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing an investment in Sendmarc, an industry leader in email and ... |
| 01.08.2023 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 360: Can Interoperability Be Mandated? | We’ve long believed in the power of online platform interoperability and the power it gives to users to curate their own experiences. One of the prime examples of this is Block Party, created by Tracy Chou, which has had to suspend its oper... |
| 09.06.2023 | Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment | One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by going into incognito mode, but overall, the ... |
| 30.05.2023 | Block Party’s anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on hiatus | Now that Twitter’s API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down. The latest to bite the dust is Block Party, an anti-harassment tool that helped people stay safe from targeted harassment on Twi... |
| 09.12.2022 | Amid growing concerns from third-party developers, Twitter shuts down Toolbox and other projects | Historically, Twitter has had a tumultuous relationship with the third-party developer community. But in the last few years, the company has tried to appease the developer community with projects like a new API release and the ‘Twitter Tool... |
| 02.11.2022 | Mozilla launches $35M venture capital fund for early-stage ‘responsible’ startups | It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of GV (formerly Google Ventures), M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Salesforce Ventures, Twilio Ventures and Zoo... |
| 21.09.2022 | Block Party, a tool to combat online harassment, raises a $4.8M seed | If you’ve experienced any form of harassment on Twitter in the last couple of years, then you’ve probably heard of Block Party. And if you haven’t, lucky you! Developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, Block Part... |
| 21.04.2022 | Twitter woos developers back with an app platform | Twitter has a novel idea as to how to win back developer trust: It’s going to allow them to build on the platform itself, then promote their tools and services directly to users on Twitter at key moments. The company today is launching an e... |
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