# Howbout: Information technology & services, London, United Kingdom

> Howbout: Howbout is a London-based social calendar app founded in 2019/2020 that helps friends sync schedules, share availability, and make plans.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/howbout (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Howbout

Howbout is a London-based social calendar app founded in 2019/2020 that helps friends sync schedules, share availability, and make plans.

Funding reported Last round: Seed

Information technology & services London, United Kingdom

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2020 6 years old
- **Team:** 32 11 to 50 people
- **Funding reported:** 8M as listed, currency not stated
- **Last round:** Seed Jun 2022

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Howbout has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About Howbout

Howbout is a London-based social calendar app founded in 2019/2020 that helps friends sync schedules, share availability, and make plans.

The app combines calendars, group chats, polls, and event coordination tools to simplify social planning. With over 4 million registered users and 50 million events created, Howbout aims to enhance connections among friendship groups. The app features shared calendars that sync with Apple and Google, smart scheduling to find free times for all attendees, built-in event chats for real-time coordination, and polls for group decision-making. Users can share availability and create invite links for easy event access. Howbout is free to use for its core features and targets friendship groups, particularly Gen Z and young adults, across 125+ countries. The company is privately held and has raised over $13 million in funding.

## What company datasets say Howbout raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **8M** in the source's currency

Rounds **3**

Last round **Seed**

Last round size **8M**

Last round date **Jun 2022**

Investors listed **15**

## Funding filed with regulators

Howbout filed 5 raises, $1.5B in all. Filings say how much was sold and to how many investors; they never name the investors.

- Aug 2025 **$674K** UK share allotment
- Sept 2024 **$9.9M** UK share allotment
- Sept 2022 **$899K** UK share allotment
- Aug 2022 **$1.5B** UK share allotment
- May 2022 **$1.3M** UK share allotment

## On a portfolio page

Investors who name them

- [Upside](https://millionrounds.com/fund/upside)

Each firm lists Howbout on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## The company, in detail

What they build

Known for

libraries event planning group chat with media group chat calendar app multi-platform support multi-user calendar event alerts information technology & services group event coordination shared calendar friend schedules event notifications rsvp tracking group schedule view archives

Built with from their website

Amazon SES Google Tag Manager PWA TestFlight YouTube MailChimp Google Workspace Viewport Meta Amazon Simple Email Service Apple Business Manager

+8 more

Google Meet Customer.IO Unpkg Mobile Friendly Embedly Open Graph Amazon Route 53 jQuery

- **Sector:** Information technology & services
- **Industry code:** NAICS 519, 51321, SIC 7375, 7372
- **Region:** England
- **Revenue:** 1.2M a year, as listed
- **Full record:** [Every detail in the company directory](https://millionrounds.com/directory/howbout)

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