Editor’s note: At the start of the year, we look at which young companies have caught our eye for hitting a milestone, bringing in funding or growing its revenue base. This company has made our list of our Startups to Watch for 2023. See them all here.
The idea for Happied came to co-founder April Johnson while she was counting down the hours until happy hour at her corporate job, wondering where to go.
She started the company, with co-founder Sharon Cao, so others wouldn’t spend hours agonizing over their after-work social gatherings. In 2019, the duo created a mobile app for happy hour lovers to easily search an extensive database of options.
But that came to an abrupt end in 2020, when the pandemic paused happy hours and bars and restaurants shut down. It forced the founders to pivot and focus on conducting virtual corporate events from New York to Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles, from cooking or mixology sessions with HelloFresh ingredient kits to family-friendly cruises to…
Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.
