Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Series, a social networking app, has raised a pre-seed round with investors including Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The company, founded by Yale students Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, considers itself a next-generation social networking platform that works entirely through iMessage, allowing users to connect with others through AI-powered "shares" of posts.