Wisdom, a social audio app that’s focused on surfacing “life advice” and broadening access to mentorship — and whose iOS app launched we covered back in October — has nabbed $2 million in seed funding off the back of early traction.
The seed is led by First Round Capital, with participation from a number of business angels.
The UK-based startup is not disclosing how many users its twist on social audio has attracted so far — but says mentors on its platform have shared some 600,000 minutes of “insights and guidance” to date; while this audio has generated 2.3 million minutes of listening (or, well, playback) in the eight weeks since the app’s official launch.
Its approach to social audio combines a one-to-one ‘conversational’ structure, centered on advice and mentorship, with the reach of a broadcast pl …