Kerry Washington is expanding the Angel Investment Portfolio, which serves as a lead investor in its pre-seal round Cheersy wedding market.
Cheersy, founded in 2024 by Amy Shack Egan, helps couples find wedding coordinators a day and has raised $ 550,000 from other investors, including Elizabeth Cutler, co -founder of Soul Cycle and Jennifer Gilbert, founder of Save the Date. Joanna Rosholm, former first Mrs Michelle Obama press secretary, and Christina Tosi, the founder of the Milk Bar, informed the round.
Washington did not immediately respond to our request for comments.
Shack Egan said she met Washington through the actor’s social impact. They both watched a dinner in Los Angeles, where Shack Egan hit a conversation. By the end of the dinner, the Social Impact Director offered an introduction to Washington as a possible angel investor. Washington has made a name for herself as an Angel investor along with other Hollywood Titans sinking into the world of newly established businesses.
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“The dinner was a few days after flying home, but I knew I had to be in that room of power players,” Shack Egan told TechCrunch. “I stayed my trip and went to dinner.”
From there, Shack Egan dealt with the rest of the capital concentration market, an experience called “provocative”. “I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I said yes to everything. Jumped on a flight. I have pulled together, he said no, and put my foot in my mouth more times than I can count, “he said.
This is Shack Egan’s second business. She also founded the Modern Rebel wedding business, which started in 2015 and founded Cheersy because the modern revolutionary has received so many demands for marriage coordination, which means that someone makes sure that the wedding runs smoothly on the day it happens.
“The day of coordination is the most state -of -the -art wedding planning service and so I responded to requests for this service that we did not offer with handmade recommendations,” he said, adding that he then realized that the offerings could simply be integrated into a market business. The result was Cheersy, which, he says, has a similar model to Airbnb.
Couples are looking for controlled matches that fit their budget, vision and vibe, searching with date, honor and specialty. Then the two parts can close a call and, if all is appropriate, the couple can close the talent.
Shack Egan considered the power of its small business activity, but said it was not the “easiest pill to swallow” for investors looking for large technology companies in its resume.
“The chapter concentration trip can be so lonely and a real blow to your mental health,” he continued.
He joined the Power to Pitch program, which helped connect it to more people in the world. The company will use this fresh capital to enhance the features of the detention platform and make some recruitment, such as the user experience designer. Shack Egan also wants to increase the marketing budget a little and bring a community manager, as the company seeks to expand to six new cities in the coming months. It is currently offered in New York and the Hudson valley.
“I started in this industry in 2015 as a freelancer event,” Shack Egan said. “I personally know the pain points of this job. I love the idea that we are making the experience of being someone who works in the wedding industry, in such a harsh – and often, unhappy – more supportive and more fun job.”
This piece was informed to reflect who informed the round.
