The Fizz Marketplace continues to make headlines 🚀 As Fizz co-founder Teddy Solomon tells Fortune, "It all boils down to the fact that there were peer-to-peer commerce platforms before...they no longer exist within Gen-Z." Check out Fortune's newest feature from Sasha Rogelberg (which dubs us the 'anti-Facebook' startup) to find out more about how Fizz is disrupting e-commerce for Gen-Z. https://lnkd.in/gnUzPEv4
Fizz
Social Networking Platforms
Palo Alto, California 3,481 followers
A social platform to facilitate hyper-local authentic communities
About us
Fizz is a private and authenticated platform designed to revolutionize the social fabric of communities, starting with colleges. After verifying a university email address, students use Fizz to post questions, memes, polls, and chat directly with other verified students, all while maintaining full control of their identity and privacy. Fizz communities are safe, authentic, and inclusive, made possible through community-based moderation. Launched by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding into colleges all across the US. In a time when social media is plagued by curated highlight reals and lack of authenticity, Fizz is on a mission to redefine the definition of a true social network.
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http://fizzsocial.app
External link for Fizz
- Industry
- Social Networking Platforms
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- Social Media
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2335 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, California 94306, US
Employees at Fizz
Updates
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Fizz Marketplace is reshaping how college students buy and sell within their campus community, and the world is watching! Our co-founder, Teddy Solomon, joined Amber Mac and Michael Bancroft on #TheFeed on SiriusXM to discuss how Fizz is making student commerce more secure and convenient as legacy peer-to-peer commerce platforms become a thing of the past. Listen to the full episode here (skip ahead to Teddy at 9:15!) https://lnkd.in/g2-83ASu
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Legacy consumer-to-consumer commerce platforms are a thing of the past! Gen-Z wants a safe and trusted space to buy & sell from their peers. That’s why we launched Fizz Marketplace, which is exploding across America 🚀 Now available on 240 college campuses, Fizz Marketplace has already seen ~50K listings & ~150K DMs in its short lifespan. Students are finding everything they need for campus life, from clothing, to collectibles, to TVs and textbooks! And the journey is just beginning 👀 TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling covers the story: https://lnkd.in/gE5qgyVd
Fizz, the anonymous Gen Z social app, adds a marketplace for college students | TechCrunch
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Forbes 30 Under 30 has two familiar names this year… Congratulations to our co-founders Teddy Solomon and Ashton Cofer, who have been recognized in the social media category. 🎉 Join us in celebrating the future of Fizz, and check out the complete list here 👉https://bit.ly/3sWCeg0 #Forbes #Forbes30Under30 #SocialMedia CC: Rakesh Mathur, Alexandra Levine, Emmy Lucas, Richard Nieva, Emily Bennett, Owl Ventures, Danielle Lay, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
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At Fizz, we value transparency and communication, which is why we wanted to bring to light an issue that occurred within our company recently. Earlier this year, in an attempt to create something that would go “viral,” a new employee at our company made a series of inappropriate and fake posts in a few of our college communities. Among the posts that were made, there were a few blurred sexual stock images of fake college students. The conduct was forced to stop immediately, and explicit content that has the possibility to cause real-world harm will have no place in our communities ever again. Fizz aims to drive authentic, safe, and fun communities for students across the country, and we cherish each of these communities so vehemently. To students who may have been impacted at these schools, we’re sorry. Fizz takes full responsibility for these actions, and we have taken steps to ensure that nothing like this will happen again.
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🤩 Great to see Perplexity & Fizz honored on The Information's list of the 50 most promising startups for 2023: https://lnkd.in/ekSMeWQW
The Information's Top 50 Promising Startups in 2023
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Fizz has been included in The Information's 2023 list of the 50 Most Promising Startups!⚡ At Fizz, we're on a mission to revolutionize the digital landscape for Gen-Z. Our focus is on creating real communities that resonate across college campuses nationwide. This recognition is a testament to our incredible team that works tirelessly to make this happen. As of today, we are live at 180 schools across the country and counting! https://lnkd.in/dhjPKw5m
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Top Creator and Commerce Startups by The Information: 1. beehiiv (newsletters) 2. Fizz (social app for college students) 3. Congo Brands (Prime) 4. Checkmate (discounts) 5. Captions (AI content creation) 6. Stan (digital goods) 7. Tome (AI presentations) ➡️ Beehiv: Next level newsletters with better SEO, flexibility, and API integrations. ➡️ Fizz: Embraces the trend of anonymous sharing, providing creators and users a platform for secrets, news, and gossip. People seek safe spaces. ➡️ Congo Brands: Prime, Alani Nu. Their hit ratio is impressive. ➡️ Checkmate: I am smelling Honey-vibes. Honey was acquired for 4B! ➡️ Captions AI: Great post-production tool for video creators ➡️ Stan: Enabling creators to sell a wide range of digital products with new features every week. On a side note, their CEO, John Hu, is also one of my favorite CEO/Creators on LinkedIn I follow. He provides a refreshingly transparent view into the company's evolution. Follow him! ➡️ Tome - AI deck creation: the future of analyst joy! 🎉 What do these startups all have in common? They enhance existing solutions or tackle recurring challenges faced by creators. It is not easy to run a successful creator economy company in this climate, so those winning should be celebrated. Who do you think is missing from this list? #startups #creatoreconomy https://lnkd.in/gwsqcC8r
The Information's Top 50 Promising Startups in 2023
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“I really want to focus on how we can build these experience-based communities, and then continue to connect Gen-Z.” Our co-founder Teddy Solomon sat down with hosts Steph Mui and Leeor Mushin for the #SomethingNewPodcast to explore the core of Gen-Z's social media needs and how Fizz has emerged as the answer to help foster community and connection beyond the screen. Listen to the full episode 🎧👉 https://apple.co/3LdbopB CC: Ashton Cofer, Rakesh Mathur #Fizz #SomethingNewPodcast #FoundingStory
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