Partiful

Partiful is an event planning and management platform. The service allows users to create events, invite guests (often via text message), and perform various event hosting tasks, including managing RSVPs and sending updates to attendees. Currently, all services are offered free of charge to users.^[1]

Partiful

Type of business	Private
Type of site	Event planning and management
Founded	2020
Headquarters	New York City, United States
Founder(s)	Joy Tao, Shreya Murthy
URL	https://partiful.com/

History

The service was founded in 2020 by Joy Tao and Shreya Murthy.^[2] First launched as a website, the platform gained significant traction in 2022, also securing $20 million in Series A funding that year.^[3] The service has seen significant adoption among Gen Z, millennials and startup founders, with the majority of users under the age of 30.^[4][5][6][7]

The company has claimed "millions" of active users by the end of 2023.^[8] Partiful expanded into iOS and Android apps in 2024, winning the award for Google's Best App of the Year that same year.^[9][10][11]

Controversy

Critics have raised questions about the professional backgrounds of Partiful's founders,^[12] as both CEO Shreya Murthy and CTO Joy Tao previously worked at Palantir Technologies,^[13] a data-analytics company that has been the subject of controversy due to its data-mining work for the CIA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).^[14] Partiful's CEO has continued to represent herself as a Palantir alum, including at a "Palantir Mafia" event in October 2024, but says both cofounders "exclusively worked on private-sector projects" and that sharing user data is "not realistically something we’re planning on doing."^[12]