Community is a social marketing startup that connects fans with celebrities, through a phone number run by Community.
The cofounders are Matthew Peltier and Josh Rosenheck, who pivoted from their previous app, Shimmur, which was in a Techstars incubator in 2017.
[1][2][3][4] The service was launched in July 2019 with investments from Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary.
Maverick's Chief Impact Officer Molly DeWolf Swenson brought Community to Oseary after trialing the texting platform with G-Eazy.
[5] At the time Barack Obama joined Community, on September 23, 2020, the company had amassed nearly 20 million members.