INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
more while video chatting with up to seven friends or strangers
Originally a video messaging app, Tribe failed to gain traction in the face of Snapchat and Facebook Messenger
But thanks to a $3 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins in June, Tribe had the runway to pivot into video chat gaming that could
They saw traction in late 2016, hitting 500,000 downloads
name into a link to their social media accounts, locations into maps and even offer Spotify links to songs playing in the background.The
promise of being the next hit teen app secured Tribe a $500,000 pre-seed from Kima and Ludlow Ventures in 2015, a $2.5 million seed in 2016
led by prestigious fund Sequoia Capital and then the June 2017 $3 million bridge from KPCB and others
established on others.
Luckily, Tribe saw a new trend emerging
a crew of friends or join in with strangers to play one of its old-school games
Facebook Messenger has its own gaming platform, but the games are largely asynchronous
That means you play separately and merely compare scores
Paglino cited technical challenges his team has overcome, its young demographic and lessons learned from 18 months of iterations as what
could keep Tribe from being easily co-opted
But as even public companies like Snapchat have learned, it can be tough to stay ahead of tech giants like Facebook with huge development
like hanging out with friends and less like a waste of time
