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Sacramento, CA

Building a positivity-focused social app for trusted business recommendations and community-driven engagement.

• Positive-Only Platform: Eliminates public reviews and focuses solely on trusted personal recommendations.
• Strong Early Traction: Over 50,000 users and 30,000 businesses favorited on the platform.
• Recognized by Tech Accelerators: Awarded credits by Amazon AWS Activate and NVIDIA Inception programs.
• Revenue and Engagement Growth: Surpassed $100,000 in revenue with rapidly increasing user engagement.
• Grassroots Investment Strategy: Built a large investor base through successful crowdfunding initiatives.

Sircles is raising funds to grow its social recommendation platform that allows users to discover and share businesses, events, and places through trusted networks rather than public reviews. Focused exclusively on positive interactions, Sircles enables users to Favorite local businesses, share recommendations within their personal groups, and avoid the toxicity often found on traditional review sites. With over 50,000 users and 30,000 businesses already favorited, the company is leveraging grassroots crowdfunding and community momentum to scale its network and engagement features. Sircles has received recognition from major tech accelerators and generated early revenue, validating both its business model and demand for a positivity-driven alternative in the market.

The capital raised will support expanded marketing initiatives, the enhancement of group chat functionalities, the introduction of business-focused tools, and continued app development. Sircles plans to drive growth through business activations, referral incentives, and deep linking strategies that encourage users to Favorite businesses directly from real-world interactions. By increasing its user base and strengthening its network effect, Sircles aims to position itself as a major new platform for local business discovery and social connection. The company’s vision extends beyond replacing review platforms, seeking to redefine how trusted recommendations are shared and how communities engage digitally through a scalable, positive, and user-driven ecosystem.

Company Info

Sircles is a social recommendations app that replaces public reviews with positive endorsements shared among trusted circles.

Sircles is a social recommendations app designed to provide a positive alternative to traditional review platforms like Yelp. Instead of public reviews, users share Favorites within their trusted circles, focusing only on positive experiences with businesses, products, and services. The platform emphasizes genuine recommendations among friends and communities, removing the negativity and toxicity often found on other review sites.

Sircles is live on iOS and Android, with growing traction including over 50,000 users, 30,000 favorited businesses, and recognition from tech accelerators like Amazon AWS Activate and Nvidia Inception. With features like innovative group chats, deep linking for businesses, and a grassroots-driven growth model, Sircles aims to build a large-scale network effect that could position it as the next major social platform focused on trust and community.