urricane Party started as a class project in grad school which morphed into a semi-legit company when Eric Katerman, Avram Dodson, and I got into the startup accelerator Capital Factory. At the end of the program we raised $200k and added a few people to the team (Richard McClellan, A.T. Fouty).

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he basic idea of Hurricane Party was to help friends find, share, and create spontaneous get-togethers. So if two friends are hanging out they'd use Hurricane Party to automatically invite all of their mutual friends. When a new friend shows up the process would repeat, organically growing the party until their small tropical storm became a category five hurricane party!