A startup building a map to help you make plans with friends has doubled its funding

A startup building a map to help you make plans with friends has doubled its funding Corner's team is building a social mapping app for Gen Z. Sydney Bradley/BI Finding a really good restaurant or bar takes effort.Corner, a startup looking to make that process easier, has raised more capital to stake its claim in the map game.Corner, which was founded in 2022, is a social-mapping app targeting Gen Z users who want to meet up in real life. In the app, users can leave reviews, share photos, and curate lists. Locations are added to Corner's map only when a user saves it.The platform has more than 250,000 users — primarily in New York and Europe — across 425 cities, the company said.The startup has nearly doubled its total funding since 2025.In September, Corner told Business Insider that it had raised $3.75 million across two rounds from VC funds including Abstract Ventures, Tapestry, and 1517. The startup also has angel investors, like Partiful's cofounder Shreya Murthy.The New York-based startup has raised new funding since, with total funding reaching $7.5 million, Corner confirmed. The startup is gearing up to raise a Series A round. Corner isn't the only app trying to make waves in the social-mapping and restaurant-saving categories.Beli, a rival app for saving and sharing restaurants, had raised $12 million in venture capital as of June 2025, the company previously told Business Insider. Apps like Amo's Bump, a social app for tracking your friends, are also gaining steam. Meanwhile, Corner has to compete with larger players like Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Yelp.Corner has carved out a following on social media as it grows its platform and business. Its digital magazine has over 91,000 followers on Instagram. Eliza Wu and Jake Xia, Corner's cofounders, have also become faces of the brand on social. Corner is a social map for saving and sharing local spots. Corner; Apple App Store A map with personalized recommendationsLast year, Corner rolled out an overhauled search feature that leverages AI to suggest recommendations based on Corner reviews and content."Our proprietary dataset powers true personalization instead of virality-based recommendations," said Corner CEO Wu.Corner's been experimenting with new features, too.Recently, I've noticed Corner will let me know when a reservation opens up at a restaurant I've saved. The app also now lets you add bookings and events, provides a round-up of places that people — including your friends — are raving about, and offers age- and location-based suggestions on where to go out."Of everything else that I've seen, and I've seen this idea tried a dozen times in the last 10 years, this was the best execution I'd seen," Abstract Ventures' Ramtin Naimi, a Corner investor, told Business Insider in September. Read next Sydney Bradley has been covering media and tech for Business Insider since 2020. She breaks news and writes extensively about Instagram and Facebook, as well as new platforms and startups shaping social media, dating apps, the creator economy, venture capital, and tech culture.Sydney's reporting on Instagram was nominated as a finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Press Club National Entertainment Journalism Awards.She graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in American Studies. You can follow Sydney's work on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram at @sydneykbradley.Have a tip? You can also contact her via encrypted messaging app Signal (@sydneykbradley.123), encrypted email (sydneykbradley@proton.me), or standard email (sbradley@businessinsider.com). Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here’s our guide to sharing information securely.Selected stories:Young founders are going viral modeDeath isn't the end: Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the graveDating apps are betting millions that AI will convince you to fall back in love with themHitting the social media jackpot is harder than ever — and it's changing the creator economyBig Tech's AI obsession is rattling creatorsNew startups race to bring back the 'old internet' vibes of the 2000sThe mysterious demise of a $1 billion social shopping appThe loneliness epidemic has given rise to a new crop of startups aiming to help people connect in real lifeIt's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymoreHow Instagram's unpredictable changes are giving influencers whiplashWhy YouTube subscriber counts have become an unreliable 'vanity metric' in the era of short videoInside the week that changed Facebook forever Startups New York Exclusive More Venture Capital