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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nGeosocial, real-time recommendation app<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Wingit<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>announced late last week that they’ve raised \u20ac2.2 million<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>via numerous investors including<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Rhone-Alpes<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>creation, 3 family offices, and 3 angel investor clubs, bringing the total they’ve raised thus far to\u00a0\u20ac3 million.<\/span> Geosocial, real-time recommendation app\u00a0Wingit\u00a0announced late last week that they’ve raised \u20ac2.2 million\u00a0via numerous investors including\u00a0Rhone-Alpes\u00a0creation, 3 family offices, and 3 angel investor clubs, bringing the total they’ve raised thus far to\u00a0\u20ac3 million. As\u00a0its name\u00a0suggests\u00a0Wingit, which was founded in 2012 by\u00a0Alban\u00a0Sayag, addresses the always posed ‘well, what do we do now’ question that arises from spontaneous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":29974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29966","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\/29966","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=29966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>its name<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>suggests<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Wingit<\/span>, which was founded in 2012 by\u00a0Alban<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Sayag<\/span>, addresses the always posed ‘well, what do we do now’ question that arises from spontaneous meetups between friends. Utilizing geolocalization to focus only on current happenings (events, ticket deals, etc) nearby the user(s)\u00a0and mining the endless information posted across various social media sources, Wingit delivers relevant and compelling real-time<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>recommendations\u00a0for users. It also<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>loops\u00a0in other<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>critical, last-minute\u00a0information for users, including the ability to reserve a Uber and will soon integrate<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>functionality\u00a0to make restaurant reservations,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>meet up with others, and book hotel rooms.<\/span>
\nWingit\u00a0are certainly not alone in this space, but they have grown steadily and now already active across 4 cities –\u00a0Paris, New York, London,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0Tel Aviv. They plan to leverage this investment to speed up\u00a0<\/span>their launch into 50 new cities\u00a0by year’s end, with an ultimate goal of being present in 100 cities globally<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>To execute against their plan, they’re looking\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>grow their team in the short-term to 10<\/a>, with\u00a02 new developers and a head of user acquisition and retention coming on-board in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"