LifePosts
Collaborative storytelling platform for life's milestones.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
$1.2m | Seed | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
LifePosts.com was a collaborative storytelling platform that operated from 2014 to 2024. The company was founded in 2014 and provided tools for users, particularly families, to create memorials and celebrate major life milestones. Its mission was to ensure every person's life story could be told, celebrated, and preserved through an easy-to-use interface.
The platform enabled users to build interactive commemorations and digital keepsakes for events such as birthdays, weddings, retirements, and even pet memorials. Key features included unlimited media uploads (photos, videos, audio), collaborative essays, timelines, and social prompts to build a comprehensive life story. LifePosts positioned itself as a way for local media to enhance their "hyper-personal" news content, offering a syndication system for partners to host and monetize these stories on their own sites.
In November 2014, the company raised $485K in a Seed Round. To ensure the longevity of the stories created, LifePosts arranged for Archive-It, a service from the Internet Archive, to create archival versions of public-facing LifePosts. This ensured that even after the company ceased operations in 2024, the commemorations would persist. The company's website now indicates that the venture has ended, directing users to the Internet Archive to find partial copies of public posts.
Keywords: collaborative storytelling, digital memorials, life milestones, online tributes, family stories, digital keepsakes, personal history, online commemoration, collaborative platform, story preservation, digital archiving, life story platform, online obituaries, milestone celebration