Mission
We build social technology that actively brings you closer to the most important people in your life.
It's easier than ever to connect with a wide network of friends & strangers, but we think that modern social technology could do a lot more to support our most intimate relationships.
By the time we exit our teen years, we're at the tail end of the in-person time we'll spend **with our parents and siblings. That means the primary interface to our families will be digital. But it's 2019, and despite the supercomputers in our pockets, we mostly resort to a combination of phone calls and texting.
Keeping a single group tight-knit over time and distance is a sacred and important task that deserves specialized tools and spaces, so that's exactly what we're building: the digital version of home.
About Cocoon
The Product
Just like your real home, Cocoon is an intimate space shared by only a handful of people. It's designed from first principles to strengthen your closest relationships — by encouraging daily rituals, unlocking a feeling of presence, and fitting seamlessly into your life.
We're still early in our journey. We only started developing the iPhone app this past Winter and invited the first wave of people to try it out this Spring. But already, Cocoon has become an indispensable space for some of our early users.
The Company
- Cocoon was founded in 2018 by Alex Cornell and Sachin Monga
- We are based in San Francisco
- We've raised $3M in funding from an amazing set of investors including Y Combinator, Lerer Hippeau, Susa Ventures, Norwest, Advancit, Foundation, iNovia, Shrug, and SV Angel
Why Join Us?
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Tackle an important and growing problem for society --
Physical proximity and in-person interaction between family members is on a long-term downward trend, coinciding with a measurable increase in individual loneliness. We feel fortunate to get to apply our expertise in social product design towards a tangible problem that can improve our collective well-being.
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Join a small team of specialists --
Alex led Design for Facebook Live & Video, and Cofounded UberConference. Sachin led Product Management for Facebook's Camera & various Growth teams. Dominique launched an award-winning camera app out of IDEO. We live and breathe social software.
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Help shape the company in addition to the product --
We're at the embryonic stage of the company, and joining us as one of the first few team members is a unique opportunity to become a true owner (we offer above-market equity grants) and meaningfully alter our trajectory.
Life at Cocoon
We work from a small studio space in the Mission District in San Francisco. Our office overlooks a serene garden courtyard that overflows into our space and changes throughout the seasons. Since we're constantly thinking about how to design amazing digital spaces for small groups, we take a lot of pride in our small physical space, too!
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