Facebook Alternative MeWe Closes $5.2 Million Series A

MeWe, the disruptive Facebook alternative, announced today that it has completed a $5.2 million Series A financing. The investment brings MeWe’s total funding to $10 million, to support the engineering of MeWe and the enterprise version MeWePRO.

The company has relied on high net worth individuals for all of its funding including Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com, who sold her online learning company to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion in 2015; Marci Shimoff, a #1 New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned expert on happiness, success; Rachel Roy, founder of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist for using your voice to encourage change; and Jack Canfield, beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul^® series, affectionately known as “America’s #1 Success Coach.”

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“While Facebook is mired in scandals, fines and breaches, MeWe has been registering thousands of new members each day, growing 25% per month,” said MeWe founder and CEO, Mark Weinstein.

Mark added, “It is clear that the world wants a better social network that treats its member as customers to serve, not data to sell. We’ve built a social networking experience that has a remarkable suite of features people love and none of the BS. MeWe has no ads, no spyware, no content manipulation, no facial recognition, and no Russians (or anyone) paying to show you fake news.”

MeWe members enjoy total control over what they share along with full ownership of their content and data. MeWe members see every post, chat, comment, etc., made by individuals and groups they are connected to, in true timeline order with no interference. MeWe is “free forever” and deploys a robust freemium revenue model along with generating enterprise revenue from MeWePRO.

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