Howbout is the easiest way to get friends together. It's a social planning app that lets you instantly find when you’re all free, easily organise plans and quickly manage your social life.🎈
🥳 Easily organise any in-person or virtual plan
⏰ Instantly find a date that works for everyone
📅 Share calendars with friends and easily control what they see
💬 Built-in chat on every event
📌 Find restaurants, cafés, bars and other venues to go to nearby
📫 Invite anyone instantly, if they have the app or not
🎥 Link straight through to any video call (e.g. Zoom, Skype & Houseparty)
Featured by Apple, TechRound, Fabulous, Verdict, Sifted, UK Tech News and named as “One to watch in 2020” by The PHA Group.
🥳 Easily organise any in-person or virtual plan
⏰ Instantly find a date that works for everyone
📅 Share calendars with friends and easily control what they see
💬 Built-in chat on every event
📌 Find restaurants, cafés, bars and other venues to go to nearby
📫 Invite anyone instantly, if they have the app or not
🎥 Link straight through to any video call (e.g. Zoom, Skype & Houseparty)
Featured by Apple, TechRound, Fabulous, Verdict, Sifted, UK Tech News and named as “One to watch in 2020” by The PHA Group.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $2.19M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| 23.03.2023 | Supernode | supernodeg... |
| - | Angel CoFu... | acfinvesto... |
| - | Boost Capi... | boostcp.vc |
| - | Upside Ven... | upsd.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 03.11.2022 | - | $2.19M | Angel CoFu... |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.09.2024 | The Art of Sibling Travel: Building Bonds Beyond the Family Tree | Traveling with siblings can be a double-edged sword. It’s a chance to reconnect, but it can also stir up old rivalries. As adults, we often forget the simple joys of shared experiences. A siblings-only trip can be a bridge, connecting the p... |
| 18.09.2024 | Travel | A siblings-only trip offers a way to expand adult relationships, but planning is key | Dates were another concern with all of our competing work schedules. A simple text chain worked fine this time around, but for larger families, tools like Doodle polls and the Howbout app can be helpful.Plan a budget and share responsibilit... |
| 03.11.2022 | Howbout Raises £1.92M in Funding | Howbout, a London, UK-based social planning startup, raised £1.92M in funding. The round was led by ACF Investors, Supernode Global, Boost Capital, Claire Valoti and Desigan Chinniah. The company intends to use the funds to support the glob... |
| 02.11.2022 | A £1.92 million raise for social planning app – Howbout that? | London-based social planning app Howbout has announced £1.92 million in funding to improve its offering and expand to new markets. The funding round includes funding from ACF Investors, Supernode Global, Boost Capital, and angel investors C... |
| 02.11.2022 | Social planning app Howbout raises £1.9m | London-based startup Howbout has raised £1.9m in funding for its app for groups to organise social activities. Founded in 2020, Howbout provides tools for groups to make social plans using polls, calendar-sharing, or “smart time matching” t... |
| 15.05.2021 | Marvel actor Blondy Baruti, who starred in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 2,’ launched BePerk, a social network designed to give people more control | Marvel actor and BePerk CEO Blondy Baruti. Bobby Quillard Marvel actor Blondy Baruti has launched BePerk, a social network aimed at giving users control. Baruti spoke with Insider about designing the app. “I believe in this, so I invested e... |
| 15.05.2021 | Marvel actor Blondy Baruti, who starred in 'Guardians of the Galaxy 2,' launched BePerk, a social network designed to give people more control | Marvel actor Blondy Baruti has launched BePerk, a social network aimed at giving users control. Baruti spoke with Insider about designing the app. "I believe in this, so I invested everything that I made in the last four years," h... |