Wildfire

Acquired

Social news app

What it does

We started Wildfire during our senior year at UC Berkeley as a safety alert app for colleges. Wildfire quickly grew beyond a campus safety tool to a social news app, which empowered people to spread the word quickly to their community when something significant happened nearby. Over six years, we've sent 65 million alerts to nearly 1 million users.

Its site says now · captured 2026-08-23

Wildfire + Opendoor

Wildfire joined Opendoor in 2021

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