🤝 Overlap has joined Pangea

Hi Everyone,

I’m thrilled to announce that Pangea has acquired Overlap.

As of today, the two apps have merged, and the entire Overlap community has joined us on Pangea.

Overlap built an incredible product & community of travelers, and I have a tremendous amount of admiration for the team behind it. Overlap Founder Sharon Rosenberg is our new Head of Design at Pangea, and Co-Founders Jason Hu and Nick Zaverdinos will remain involved in an Advisory Capacity.

We’re all very excited to work together, and bring the best of both products forward as we continue to build the future of social travel in 2026 and beyond. You can find out more about the acquisition in our Press Release.

If you’re an Overlap User, you’ll receive a separate email with more detailed instructions. In short:

If you’re a Pangea user - you should begin to see A LOT of new friends on the platform - so be sure to check your friend suggestions, sync your contacts, and add any anyone you know to help everyone get connected quickly.

And of course, keep planning trips with our new united community!

Please checkout our FAQ article for more information.

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Matt, the Founder of Pangea.

After spending 12 years, living, working, and visiting 111 countries (and counting) I decided to quit my job in tech to solve the problems I faced first hand during my journey.

While there are many travel apps, none of them solved the main challenges I faced.  Most were overly cumbersome to add my travel plans and impossible to see where my actual friends were traveling.  Many appeared to have tons of other travelers nearby, but engagement was always low, and finding people I actually wanted to meet was difficult.  Basically glorified dating apps.  Worst of all, most tried to charge me just to use the app, something I’m committed to avoid at all costs.  (Yes, Pangea is 100% free for you!)

Pangea gives you a simple way to share your travel schedule & bucket-list with your network & other travelers, plus powerful tools keep track of where & when friends are traveling.   The goal is to help you coordinate plans, make trips actually happen, and connect with old & new friends more IRL by #HackingSerendipity. 

At its core Pangea, lets you share your travel plans with friends, track the cities / countries you’ve been, and get notified when your plans overlap in a similar way to how Overlap worked.

Plus, having a much larger community in one place ultimately increases the likelihood you’ll be able to connect with other like minded Travelers & Digital Nomads in any city in the world.

Pangea is far from perfect, and there may be some minor changes to how things worked in Overlap.

The exciting part is that with both of our teams working together, we have A LOT of new great things planned which will be launching over the next few months.

Stay tuned, and of course, if you have product ideas or feedback on how we can improve, feel free to let us know.

If you want to get more involved, feel free to join our WhatsApp Community where we have city chats for most of the popular nomad hot spots, share partner deals, and organize community trips (like some of these pictured).

I also personally invite you to join our community at NomadWeek in Cape Town (Jan 25-31, 2026) or for the full Nomad Season where you’ll be able to meet me, and several other team members from both Overlap & Pangea. You can use OVERLAP50 to save $50.

I hope to meet many of you over the coming months and years on the road somewhere.

And, if you don’t know already, I’m on a personal mission to visit every country in the world, ideally with as many friends as possible.

If you’re interested in joining me in any of the 86 countries I have left, please let me know. And of course always feel free to reach out to me on Pangea if our plans OVERLAP.

Exciting times!

Matt Gray
Founder & CEO of Pangea
111/197 Countries + 7 Continents Traveled
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