{"id":1468,"date":"2016-11-08T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/digital-wedding-planner-joy-says-i-do-to-4-5-million-in-seed-funding.html"},"modified":"2016-11-08T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:48:35","slug":"digital-wedding-planner-joy-says-i-do-to-4-5-million-in-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/digital-wedding-planner-joy-says-i-do-to-4-5-million-in-seed-funding.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital wedding planner Joy says \u2018I do\u2019 to $4.5 million in seed funding"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Joy<\/a>, a startup aiming to help brides-to-be plan their weddings in the digital age, has pulled in $4.5 million in seed capital.<\/p>\n

Joy launched <\/a>out of Y Combinator this summer\u00a0with aims to take on\u00a0what some might think of as a crowded industry. There are plenty of wedding websites in existence but many more popular sites like MyWedding.com, WeddingWire and TheKnot.com popped up years ago and\u00a0are still a jumbled mess of services tapped on top of one another in an effort to help couples organize their big day.<\/p>\n

But Joy incorporates assistive technology to pull it all together in one place from engagement to honeymoon and co-founder Vishal Joshi tells TechCrunch he\u2019s now implemented a social twist to the platform as well, giving the wedding party the power to share photos and interact with one another before the big day and during the festivities.<\/p>\n

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Sierra Ventures and Matrix Partners led the round, with participation from Fuel Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures and a few angels including Joe Montana, Muse lead singer Matt Bellamy, Zynga\u2019s Marc Pincus and TechCrunch\u2019s former co-Editor in chief Alexia Tsotsis.<\/p>\n

This is the first investment for Tsotsis, a newlywed herself. She says she chose this particular startup after recognizing the \u201csiloed\u201d nature of the online wedding space.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no one-stop shop for your invite, CRM, planning and guest management needs,\u201d Tsotsis said. \u201cJoy aspires to be that one-stop shop, giving brides and grooms peace of mind, and better yet, joy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Joshi believes his startup could eventually go beyond weddings to bring more people that kind of \u201cjoy\u201d and says that\u2019s already started to happen a little bit. But part of adding to that happiness and peace of mind will come for Joshi when he can figure out a smarter guest management system.<\/p>\n

Guest list management is a pain across most wedding websites I\u2019ve tested, including the one I made for my own wedding<\/a> on TheKnot.com.<\/p>\n

The guest list function on my website confused a lot of my guests and often made duplicates, making it impossible for my husband and I to know how many guests to plan for without painstakingly combing through the list and trying to weed out copies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe space you are talking about it has been an impossible problem for everybody,\u201d Joshi told me about the guest list issues when I first interviewed<\/a> him about his startup in August.<\/p>\n

But the problem proved to be more complicated than Joshi originally anticipated. But to be fair it\u2019s only been a couple of months since I last spoke with Joshi and he tells me the guest list issue is\u00a0something he\u2019s hard at work on solving.<\/p>\n

But despite the setback, Joy still seems to be a better experience than what else is out there and I wish it was around when I first started the planning process.<\/p>\n

Already it seems at least some couples see the benefit of an all-in-one wedding planning platform as well. Four months ago when Joy started out it was pulling in 150 weddings a month. Joshi now tells me the site works with 150 weddings a day and that it\u2019s already been used in over 100 countries.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s nowhere near what TheKnot or other incumbents have in numbers<\/a>, but it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n

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