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Our Founder's Story
Meet Jess Harcourt
Jess is a resilient optimist motivated by solving big problems. Her previous career is in finance and strategy consulting across public and private healthcare sectors. She has global experience, including several countries in Africa and Asia, and is a London Business School MBA and scholar.
Jess founded Seen because she believes everyone deserves to feel seen and to have the opportunity to show up as their genuine selves.
Seen is on a mission to rewrite the rules of social media, which have been built to feed the self-interest of the social media giants. We’re here to right their wrongs.
Join us. Find your vibe and community. Feel seen.
Who We Are
The Seen team is a motley assortment of individuals from London, Nairobi, Lagos, Melbourne, Shanghai, Milan & Pennsylvania. We’re millennials & Gen Zs, engineers & designers, students & (don’t hate us!) MBAs & lawyers.
We’re building Seen because we all know how it feels to be seen, to click with someone on the same page, whose interests are right up your alley, whose vibe is your cup of tea.
Jess Harcourt
London
Founder
Christine Wasike
Nairobi
Mobile Engineer
Chukwuebuka Okoye-Nobert
Kigali
Backend Engineer
Our Alumni
Seen has been a labour of love, and we've been honoured to have so many talented students and grads to join us on our journey.
Yuchan (Abby) Fang
London
Product Designer
Anindita (Neha) Kurup
London
Digital Marketer
Sarah Brewin El-Shal
London
Brand & Marketing
Guy Yashiv
London
Product & Growth
Rafael Miro-Quesada A.S.
London
Product Manager
Our Values
In case you were wondering, here is what Seen stands for, what we care about, and what gets us out of bed in the morning.
Empathy.
This one is a no-brainer for us. We understand and care about your experiences because they are our experiences too. We fixate on making sure our features are intuitive, immersive, and most importantly, human.
Design.
It’s the details that matter. We’re truly obsessed with thoughtful, deliberate, human-centred design. Everything you see on Seen comes from hours of deliberation, iteration, and getting real granular over the details. Because when it comes to the quality standards to which we hold ourselves, minutiae matters.
Connection.
We believe that relationships shape who we are - they help us express our true selves, navigate the world around us and literally survive. That’s why we’re driven to help you connect with the people who get the real, unfiltered you.
Safety.
You can’t feel seen unless you feel safe. That’s why we put safety and trust bang in the middle of all our operations. We’re rolling out safety features from the get-go, like compulsory user verification, private communities, and strict Community Guidelines, which we're dead serious about. And we’ll keep coming up with new features and resources to keep you safe.
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