Secret service for anonymous messaging closes, receiving $ 35 million investment for the year of its existence
David Bittou, one of the founders of Secret , anonymous messaging mobile application, announced the closure of the company. He wrote a number of messages about this on his twitter . The company worked for only a year. During this time, $ 35 million was invested in it.
“After much deliberation and consultation with the board of directors, I decided to close Secret. Unfortunately, Secret does not correspond to the vision that I had before its launch, so I hope that this is the right decision for me, our investors and our team, ”Bittou writes.
The second founder, Chris Bader, left the company at the beginning of the year. He did not agree with the new design concept of the application and decided that he, as a designer, had nothing more to do in this project.
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To date, most of the staff left the project. According to Techcrunch, there are only 10 employees left.
The Secret application was launched early last year. During this time, the number of users of the service reached 15 million. Of the raised $ 35 million, each of the two founders got $ 3 million. However, Bittou promised to return the money.
It is known that in the initial rounds of financing the Google Ventures fund invested in the service. However, in the last round did not participate, despite the investments of partners Y Combinator .
On March 27, 2015, the Secret team announced the launch of new applications. Among them, a service for sharing rumors within companies, as well as an application for sharing feedback on books, movies and music.
“After much deliberation and consultation with the board of directors, I decided to close Secret. Unfortunately, Secret does not correspond to the vision that I had before its launch, so I hope that this is the right decision for me, our investors and our team, ”Bittou writes.
The second founder, Chris Bader, left the company at the beginning of the year. He did not agree with the new design concept of the application and decided that he, as a designer, had nothing more to do in this project.
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To date, most of the staff left the project. According to Techcrunch, there are only 10 employees left.
The Secret application was launched early last year. During this time, the number of users of the service reached 15 million. Of the raised $ 35 million, each of the two founders got $ 3 million. However, Bittou promised to return the money.
It is known that in the initial rounds of financing the Google Ventures fund invested in the service. However, in the last round did not participate, despite the investments of partners Y Combinator .
On March 27, 2015, the Secret team announced the launch of new applications. Among them, a service for sharing rumors within companies, as well as an application for sharing feedback on books, movies and music.
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