Jordanian startup Friendture raises $175,000 in equity-free funding to build a 'Slack for travelers'
Summary
Founded in September 2016 by Rola Fayyad, Friendture makes it easy for group travelers to plan and organize their trips through its mobile apps for Android & iOS. Rola, who has more than ten years of experience of working in the travel industry started Friendture when she realized that even plannig a simple event with friends requires a lot of efforts and switiching between different apps an WhatsApp groups. Even though she is the founding member of Girls in Tech’s Jordan Chapter and has better understanding of technology than an average non-tech founder, Rola had hard time finding relevant technical resources to build Friendture. For our new version of Friendture, we are very careful building the human resources and have a consultant on-board with me to ensure efficiency and productivity of the team,” she explained, speaking to MENAbytes. Speaking about how Friendture is different from existing apps like Eventbrite, Meetup or even Facebook events, Rola exaplined: “Think Slack, how organized and efficient is it for work, what if we had the same for group travelers.