{"id":28110,"date":"2015-01-21T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28110"},"modified":"2015-01-21T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T09:35:18","slug":"shapr-raises-3-million-combine-path-tinder-linkedin-perfect-networking-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/01\/shapr-raises-3-million-combine-path-tinder-linkedin-perfect-networking-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapr raises $3 Million to combine Path, Tinder &amp; LinkedIn into the perfect networking app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/bg-header-01-e1421832893538.jpg\" alt=\"bg-header-01\" width=\"1000\" height=\"534\" \/><br \/>\nParis- and New York-based startup <a href=\"http:\/\/shapr.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shapr<\/a> has raised $3 Million from investors including Blablacar co-founder Fred Mazzella, the company confirmed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weareshapr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Twitter<\/a> this week. The startup, which aims to leverage\u00a0the power of introductions,\u00a0was co-founded by\u00a0Ludovic Huraux, formerly of Attractive World, and by\u00a0Zane Groshelle last year.<br \/>\nThe product, currently built on top of LinkedIn&#8217;s API (<a title=\"Why is the #1 headhunter app Pealk shutting down today? (Answer: Linkedin)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/06\/26\/linkedin-killed-pealk\/\">with all the hazard&#8217;s that can cause<\/a>), allows users to identify 50 people in their network for whom they are willing to open up their entire network (see: <strong>Path<\/strong>). Users\u00a0then\u00a0receive 5 daily &#8216;intro&#8217;s&#8217; &#8211; proposed connections to one of your 50 connections&#8217; connections &#8211; and, if both parties agree (see: <strong>Tinder<\/strong>), then the introductions are made and the two professionals connect (see: <strong>LinkedIn<\/strong>).<br \/>\nI was introduced to the app in late 2014 by a professional colleague, and I was a bit hesitant.\u00a0I am often asked for intro&#8217;s to people based on my connection to them on LinkedIn, and usually I don&#8217;t know the person well enough to make the intro, despite being connected with them. Shapr hopes to solve this by narrowing down your network to 50 People, and this has clearly seduced some so far.<br \/>\nFor now, the most difficult task for me is deciding 50 people with whom I&#8217;m willing to share my network, whom I&#8217;m also willing to make available to the other 49&#8217;s network, should they be interested.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris- and New York-based startup Shapr has raised $3 Million from investors including Blablacar co-founder Fred Mazzella, the company confirmed\u00a0on Twitter this week. The startup, which aims to leverage\u00a0the power of introductions,\u00a0was co-founded by\u00a0Ludovic Huraux, formerly of Attractive World, and by\u00a0Zane Groshelle last year. The product, currently built on top of LinkedIn&#8217;s API (with all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}