About

Founded

2020

Headquarters

San Bruno, California

Industry

Work Collaboration & Productivity

Company Description

Building better teams, bit by bit. Create and work in digital Spaces designed to make virtual interactions more human.

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Funding

Total Raised

$76 million

Valuation

$700 million

Significant Investors

Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Dylan Field

Company Traction

In March 2021, Gather’s monthly revenue was $400,000, mostly from one-off events.

As of March 2021, Gather had amassed over 4 million users.

In its 2022 year-end update, Gather reported millions of users located across 193 different countries and 66,000 cities. Additionally, 10% of the conversations on Gather were unplanned, from water cooler chats, and users danced with their avatars 10.8 million times.

Leadership Team

Phillip Wang: Co-Founder & CEO of Gather. Former Co-Founder & CEO of Online Town.

Mohammed Kumail Jaffer: Co-Founder & CTO of Gather. Former Co-Founder & CTO of Online Town.

Alex Chen: Co-Founder of Gather. Former Software Engineering Intern at Facebook.

Jinen Kamdar: CPO at Gather. Former CPO at Modern Health.

Stephanie Chung: VP of Operations at Gather. Former Talent at Sequoia Capital.‍

Nathan Foss: Co-Founder of Gather. Former Founder of Gravity.

Press

Forbes (July 8, 2022): Virtual Office Startup Gather Laid Off About A Third Of Its Employees Last Month

TechCrunch (March 11, 2021): Sequoia Capital puts millions of dollars into Gather, a virtual HQ platform

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