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Commily is all about connecting families and communities together, as its subtitle suggests. Less about far-reaching connections and more about keeping connections in immediate neighborhoods collected and current, the service, which is currently in beta, has a heavy focus on organization. Family schedules. Children's after-school sports and extracurriculars. Parties. Cultural celebrations. Religious festivities. You name it. Commily is looking to make things easier on Mom, Dad, and the rest of the clan.
The service was first created in Israel, a competitive venue for startups in its own right, but earlier this month the site's creators, Gil Levonai and Micki Blou began to travel with their product, and unveiled a pilot program for Chicago-area residents, with help from Laura Waas, Commily's vice president of community development, of Elk Grove Village, IL.
While activity on the site is not booming, so to speak, it is slowly gaining in notice. And because the site's features help users maintain their social calendars quite well, it's likely that Commily will continue to grow at an increased clip. The site's planned expansion across a much wider landscape is bound to accelerate its motion uphill. To hasten its ascent, its founders are presently in search of seed funding, both to better its toolset and increase membership.
Commily is in an interesting position. Clearly an ambitious startup with a desire to serve one of the largest bases of social organization on the Web - the U.S. - its engineers are eager to build a popular network. One as active as it is valuable. But at the same time they recognize they are not alone in their market. Israel is a thoroughly condensed sector within the larger technology world. So while Commily is driven to succeed, and is structurally sound for a relative networking novice, it has company, and there's only so much venture capital moved about the industry in a given year to finance ideas into serious craft. The figures are increasing every year, but supply is in no way perfectly aligned with demand.
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