Dipsea raises $5.5M for short-form, sexy audio stories –
Summary
Dipsea, an app-based platform for short-form erotic audio stories, is the latest to grab funding from venture capital investors. The stories are designed to be listened to at any time, with the company’s examples including solo in bed, while getting ready for a date or to help turn off boss brain on the way home from work. Most women use “mental framing” to get turned on, meaning they imagine scenarios, often with detailed story-lines and characters to stimulate themselves, per a study by OMGYes and The Kinsey Institute. “Audio is amazing because it’s imaginative; it requires you to paint a picture in your brain that’s very stimulating and it’s super intimate and very personal,” Dipsea co-founder and chief executive officer Gina Gutierrez told TechCrunch. The brand and design strategist started Dipsea alongside chief technical officer Faye Keegan, a former product manager at Neighborly.