Enquire, an innovative new “local community” or “hood” Q&A app is now being rolled out in eighteen US cities and Paris. Enquire helps visitors and local users alike get “human” answers to questions such as “where’s the best place to take a photo of the skyline” or “what are the chalk board specials at wine bar on seventh tonight?”
The Enquire app let’s users ask questions that are more complex than a Google search or phone book lookup, and those that require a real-time answer. Transitory information such as specials at local restaurants, flash events, celebrity sightings, traffic alerts are examples of “good-for-the-moment-only” information. The company bills the app as “a local playground for your hood … by posting and replying to questions to other locals in the hood, Enquire builds local communities for all curious minds.”
Following a June 3 launch, Enquire has already reached its “minimum-for-launch” 200 users in three “hoods”: New York, Paris and San Francisco. Other cities now rolling out include Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Portland and Miami. The Enquire app is currently free on the Apple App Store. The website is at www.goenquire.com.
The French founders, Solène Maître and Maxime Leroy, developed the concept in France before moving it to launch in the US market. Enquire is backed by Paris based OLMA Fund, a private equity group with a diverse portfolio Internet and luxury brand investments.