Popl is the fastest way to share your social media and contact info! No app or typing required ⚡️
Location: United States, California, Los Angeles
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2.2M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Cathexis V... | cathexis.v... |
| 14.04.2021 | Urban Inno... | urbaninnov... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 06.04.2021 | - | $2.2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.01.2026 | Unusual: $3.6 Million Raised To Help Brands Shape How AI Describes Them | Unusual, a startup that says it helps brands understand and influence how large language models describe their products and services, has raised $3.6 million in new funding as companies increasingly worry that AI chatbots can sway customer ... |
| 09.01.2026 | Unusual Raises $3.6M in Funding | Unusual, a San Francisco, CA-based company developing a platform that helps businesses improve both their AI visibility as well as their AI brand alignment, raised $3.6M in funding. Backers included BoxGroup, Long Journey Ventures, Y Combin... |
| 26.06.2025 | Popl Becomes HubSpot App Partner with a Certified Integration | Popl HubSpot Certified App Partner Popl, the leading In-Person Marketing (IPM) platform, has officially become a certified HubSpot App Partner, unveiling a seamless integration that empowers go-to-market teams to instantly sync leads from P... |
| 19.11.2021 | Meet the Gen Z founders who created a music app to help combat pandemic-induced anxiety and depression | Advertisement Travis Chen and Brian Femminella are the founders of the mental health app SoundMind. The duo felt there was a lack of reliable mental health resources that could help people during the pandemic. Name: Travis Chen and Brian Fe... |
| 19.04.2021 | Popl tops $2.7M in sales for its technology that replaces business cards | If you’ve spent any time on TikTok lately, then you’ve probably seen a number of Popl’s ads. The startup has been successfully leveraging social media to get its modern-day business card alternative in front of a wider audience. Packaged as... |
| 06.04.2021 | YC-Backed Popl Raises $2.2 Million To Create The Digital Business Card | Throughout the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel coronavirus has kept us “socially distanced.” Yet, two young college graduates and friends from UCLA, Jason Alvarez-Cohen and Nick Eischens, created Popl to maintain our ability to di... |
| 01.09.2020 | In Our Brave New Socially-Distanced World, Popl Keeps Us Connected With Contactless Sharing | COVID-19 has kept us physically apart from one another. Before, business cards would be exchanged and numbers saved in each other’s phone. Now, social distancing requires us to be six feet apart from one another. How do we connect and share... |