Meetup was born out of the tragedy of 9/11, created as a way to help people in online communities connect in the real world and do meaningful things together. Over the past 10 years it has evolved ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “That’s one-word: Meetup, with a capital M and not a capital U. People sometimes screw that up,” says Scott Heiferman, as he speaks to me ...

Scott Heiferman claims he is no "genius programmer," but he is the mad genius behind Meetup.com, the popular site that helps people who have shared interests plan meetings. Since its inception in 2001 ...

In 2017, founder Scott Heiferman sold it to WeWork, which offloaded it a few years later before declaring bankruptcy in 2023. As of 2024, Bending Spoons, the Italian tech company that's probably best ...

“The moment we realized it had to go was when we realized that our logo actually represented the worst part of meeting up with new people.” With 27 million members and 250,000 separate groups, ...

Meetup, the event organization platform, has been divested by WeWork and acquired by an investment group led by Kevin Ryan’s Alley Corp. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed but sources have ...

If you’ve ever surfed the net for for a club, or a group, or party of like-minded denizens united by a common cause, you’ve likely stumbled upon Meetup. The social network, founded in 2001, has ...

Many interesting people reside in Sacramento, and that is reflected in the diversity of the local Meetup groups organized via the Meetup.com website. There truly is something for everyone on the site, ...