Secret
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
- Founders
- David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler
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