Abraham Shafi is the CEO and cofounder of the event-planning app IRL, which launched in 2019. Last June, IRL was valued at $1.1 billion as the company integrated live and virtual events. Shafi ...

“We have all seen the state of the market,” IRL CEO and co-founder Abraham Shafi wrote in a company-wide memo where the social app announced it would be dramatically cutting staff. Similar to ...

Questions about IRL’s user numbers first surfaced last year. Now a former employee is alleging the Berkeley startup retaliated against him for raising concerns about it. San Francisco Business Times ...

IRL (In Real Life), the leading group messaging social network that brings people together through groups, events and shared experiences, ... Chief Business Officer of IRL.

In its legal complaint, SoftBank explains that it was moved to invest in IRL because of its impressive user numbers; the app claimed it had been downloaded by 25% of U.S. teens under 28 years old ...

IRL was a social messaging platform that had raised $200 million and saw its valuation skyrocket to more than $1 billion in a short period of time. Most of its users were fake.

How Brett Dashevsky is turning IRL events in NYC into a community and newsletter business.