The story of how we got started
Two college students with a new approach to social media
Two college students with a new approach to social media
Raluca was tired of the restrictions she faced on social platforms in which her posts were not seen by many friends and felt the pressures of complicated algorithms. With the frustration of other social media content creators, Raluca begins Hive as a passion project in her bedroom and self-taught herself how to code.
After coding all summer and even stretching into the first semester of college, Hive was finally finished and released to the iOS App Store!
After seeing Hive's potential our designer reached out to Raluca to see if Hive needed help to improve their user experience.
Hive welcomed thousands of new users to the community. We reached #1 on the iOS App Store and were featured in Teen Vogue! We grew past 300K users during this time and since then have grown to 600K organically.
During our growth, we realized we needed extra help to execute the Hive vision accurately. Our full stack developer- since he joined, all updates have been released with minimal bugs and the highest praise from our users.
Most tech companies have funding anywhere from $10 million - $20 million. Hive’s funding, however, originally came from two college students. In October, Hive secured its first check from an angel investor for its pre-seed round!
Our pre-seed round was partially raised and funding is being used for our new update. Android requests continue to pour in and we expect an Android release to hit the Google Play Store in 2022. A startup is a marathon and our sprint is getting even more exciting!
