Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups

The veterans of the European startup scene, which have launched several consumer applications in the past, partly comes out of concealment on Tuesday with a new application. At first glance, Grouphug It will simply generate meme from the WhatsApp Chat archive. However, it masks a wider game.

Grouphug leads Felix Petersenone of the most experienced and experienced B2C founders in Europe, which he built Amen and Beaches Apps.

Currently, all users can do on Grouphug to export text from the WhatsApp Chat group and generate funny images from the content.

However, this is just a tasting of things to come. Basically this simple exercise to acquire beta users is the application still in a concealed mode. But Petersen hinted at TechCrunch that the company plans to start a platform for generating more values ​​from the WhatsApp group using a generative AI.

“We think we have broken up ai humor. For now, Grouphug will create jokes based on what happened in the group. Your WhatsApp chats are turning into meme. But then we have other plans for that,” Techcrunch told Techcrunch. “There is this world of group conversations in which most of the things that happen, such as Reddit or X, are publicly being made in public. But all that is in WhatsApp groups is not part of a public internet. That is an opportunity.”

Startup has already raised 1.5 million euros ($ 1.7 million) in advance by a carrier led by Berlin Blueyard VC, along with Tiny VC, Charles Songhurst (Member of the Meta Committee), Atlantic Labs and others.

Petersen is joined by Joseph Djenandji, who recently left his famous multi -channel travel brand Lostin. The third founder is Matthew Balazsi, who has worked on AI and ML for the last 10 years.