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Bigfoot
Local discovery app
- 1-20 employees
- B2C
- Travel
- Lifestyle
- Marketplace
- Music
- Ticketing
- Entertainment
- Social
- Events
- Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, Spain
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Company mission
Transforming how you explore locally, one big step at a time. There’s magic to discovering the hidden gems of your city, and Bigfoot helps you find them. To get you closer to those moments, we’re transforming how we all find unexpected joy in life by making it fun and easy to discover amazing things to do. With Bigfoot, the cumbersome process of uncovering events, restaurants, nightlife and more becomes a liberating, exciting exploration of your city.
Our take
Finding things to do in cities can be tough, especially when existing search engines are riddled with fake reviews and sponsored listings. In addition to this problem, existing search engines frequently recommend activities that are not of interest to the user, discouraging them and potentially preventing them from finding the right activity.
Bigfoot provides an online marketplace focused on "local discovery", helping people find activities, events, and experiences within cities. The website ranks activities across ten categories based on other search engines, blogs, and rating systems, allowing users to personalise their searches and filter listings based on category preferences, pricing, and other data points.
Whilst Bigfoot inevitably faces competition from giants such as TripAdvisor, the company has taken a unique angle by aggregating information from its competitors in addition to independent sources, curating a balanced and comprehensive catalog of city activity ratings. The company also stands out with its personalised approach, allowing users to filter search results to prevent poor recommendations.
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Benefits
- Significant equity
- Holiday allowance
- Health/dental/vision insurance
Company values
- 🤜🤛 All hands on deck. This dream only works if we execute relentlessly as a team. We are willing to roll up our sleeves to get the job done, regardless of what our job title says.
- 🌱 Have Each Other's Backs. We treat each other with respect, and how we want to be treated ourselves. We will not tolerate jerks or big egos. We welcome others’ perspectives + ideas.
- 🚀 Big, bold bets. We are in it to win it, and take bold action in order for us to separate from others in the space. We strive to help each other create the best work of our careers.
- ❣️ Product Love Drives Growth. We believe that extreme product love is fundamental to our success. It fuels how we seek to scale into a globally beloved company.
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2022
$1.5m
Total funding: $1.5m
Leadership
Alex Ward
(Co-founder)Director of Real Estate for Airbnb from 2015 to 2020. Director of Strategic Partnerships for Electronic Arts. Head of BD & Partnerships for Cardspring (acquired by Twitter). Univ of Chicago MBA.
Shane Lykins
(Co-founder)Senior Product Lead at Hopin in 2021. Senior Manager of Product Operations for Pinterest from 2019 to 2021. Product Specialist and early Experiences Team Member for Airbnb from 2015 to 2017.
JC Uva
(Co-founder)SVP and Managing Director of MediaLink from 2013 to 2020. Investment Banking for Moelis & Company. NYU MBA, Georgetown BA.
James Robinson
(Senior Advisor on Marketing & Strategy)CMO of Insurate. Marketing Director / Team Lead for Airbnb from 2018 to 2020. Vice President of Marketing for Mosaic from 2015 to 2018. Lead marketing teams for Solar City (Tesla), and Amazon.
