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Connections
News
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Products
People
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$1.6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.6M
Venture round · Aug 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
1-10
employees, estimated range
Backers
5
Y Combinator, NFX
The money's age
Long since its last round
38 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026 Formerly About Weekend (volleygames.com) Aug 11, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $1.6M · SEC Form D Jan 2018 Went through Y Combinator 2016 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.07%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Aug 2023 $1.6M — SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Xiaofeng PengExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Jeremy StepakExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Corey KofflerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Dustin KofflerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Weekend, formerly Volley, builds voice-controlled games and entertainment for televisions and smart speakers, including Song Quiz, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Its titles are played by millions of households on Alexa and connected TV platforms. The company develops both the games and the conversational engine behind them.

Connections

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Shared investors5
74 portfolio companies: Vistar Media, Party Bear, Meet Cute and 71 more
102 portfolio companies: Zippi, Mailchimp, Zerocater and 99 more
NFXVia a fund
233 portfolio companies: Akooda, Fuse Games, Icy Ghost and 230 more
634 portfolio companies
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6314 portfolio companies
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News

A fun debugging story from this weekend
I spent more time than I care to admit yesterday trying to figure out why my loops only resulted in a single result and none of my debugging prints worked either. Turns out, my code was working the entire time.
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Award travel.usnews.com 3 months ago
The 21 Best Weekend Getaways in the South.
Discover the 21 best weekend getaways in the South for 2026. Explore historic charm, mouthwatering Southern cuisine and scenic, relaxing beach escapes.
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News dev.profullstack.com 3 months ago
Cloning takes a weekend, finding the 38% took months - Chovy's Blog
I posted
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News the Guardian 3 months ago
The weekend is 100 years old - but have 'skiveday Fridays' and hybrid working ruined it for everyone?
In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off - and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it's changed beyond recognition
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News New Statesman 3 months ago
The poets trying to give AI taste
Can a large language model learn literary judgement?
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News MakeUseOf 4 months ago
Excel was my database for 15 years, and Postgres ended that in a weekend
Your database deserves better than rows and tabs
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News Loudwire 5 months ago
Rock's Best Weekend Anthems - 20 Essential Songs
For those living the Monday to Friday work grind, these songs are your end-of-week soundtrack!
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People

Xiaofeng Peng
Executive Officer
Jeremy Stepak
Executive Officer
Corey Koffler
Executive Officer, Director
Dustin Koffler
Executive Officer, Director
Matthew Shalhoub
Director
Brandon Koffler
Director
Viken Douzdjian
Director
Karan Wadhera
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
1-10 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$1.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $1.6M Details