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Pools (fka Withfriends)

Pools makes it easy for art, music, and other cultural communities to build memberships around their events. Inspired by the same methodology that museums have used to grow support, the platform leverages the checkout of tickets sales to upsell attendees into a membership with automated discounts, advance access, or members-only benefits.

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Y Combinator
competitors
6
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last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4015

Pools makes it easy for art, music, and other cultural communities to build memberships around their events. Inspired by the same methodology that museums have used to grow support, the platform leverages the checkout of tickets sales to upsell attendees into a membership with automated discounts, advance access, or members-only benefits.

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High Signal interpretation

Pools (fka Withfriends) is classified as Sales and marketing from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
musicattendeesartPoolsmembershipmuseumsplatformcultural communitiesautomated discountsadvance access
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Pools (fka Withfriends)

Sales and marketing · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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shared extracted concept terms: music; shared product terms: easy, music, grow, support; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Cuseum

match 46

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shared extracted concepts: museums; shared product terms: museum, cultural, member

FanSifter

match 44

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Bizzy

match 43

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Voiceops

match 41

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shared product terms: easy, support, sale, acces; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: Sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Venta AI

match 38

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shared product terms: support, sale, automat, acces; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator