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Consumer AppsUSAClosed 2015

Total Raised

$35M

Peak Valuation

$100M

Employees

—

Year Collapsed

2015

Business model

Anonymous social sharing app for posting to your contacts without attribution.

In brief

Let users post anonymously to people in their contacts, generating a wave of buzz and a fast-growing user base built on gossip and confession-style posts. Persistent cyberbullying incidents and a widely publicized failure to reliably de-anonymize threatening posts made the core p…

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Key facts

Founded
2014
Closed
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Industry
Consumer Apps
Employees
—
Revenue
Undisclosed

Related failures

Often compared with: Whisper, Yik Yak.