Andy Dunn’s startup Pie becomes less of an events app and more of a social network

Pie, the social app from Bonobos’ founder Andy Dunn, is taking its mission to connect people in real life one step further. On Tuesday, the startup launched a new communities feature that allows people to establish more permanent homes for their social groups on its app, offering an alternative to group texts, Facebook Groups, and other technologies people use to stay in touch.

Originally founded as an events app in Chicago, Pie is backed by investors including Forerunner, Lightspeed, Accel, and angels like Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, and the app has grown to around 300,000 users. With its latest feature, Community Homes, the company now hopes to encourage its users to join communities, where events are the natural outcome of those connections, but not necessarily the main draw. Image Credits:Pie The update arrives at a time when younger people are looking to make more connections in the real world, after so many years of online socializing.

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