""I should do something with someone.""
""Figuring out who's around, texting, waiting, researching options... It felt absurd that staying home and watching a movie was one tap, but seeing a friend was ten steps," der Vorm said."
""The data is stark. Isolation can be as physically damaging as things we universally agree are bad for us," she said."
""That gave me the confidence that working on friendship isn't 'soft.' It's a real health problem.""
Alyx der Vorm experienced frequent Friday-night loneliness and recognized that coordinating in-person plans often involves many cumbersome steps. At 25, der Vorm studied computational neuroscience at Harvard and researched how social connections impact mental and physical health, finding that isolation can be physically damaging. In 2020, der Vorm launched Clyx, an app that aggregates event listings from sources like Ticketmaster and TikTok, shows local events, suggests venues, lets users see which contacts are attending, and uses a compatibility engine to recommend people to meet. Clyx reports roughly 50,000 active ticket-buying users, 200,000 browsers, and raised $14 million in Series A funding.
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