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Tellonym
Anonymous messaging & social app
- 1-20 employees
- B2C
- Communication
- Social Media
- Wallstr. 88 10179 Berlin Deutschland
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Company mission
To empower people to build strong relationships and enable meaningful conversations by removing social and physical constraints.
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Our take
To stand any real chance of breaking into the social media and/or messaging spaces, startups have to do something different from the rest. The co-founding trio behind Tellonym, who were still students at the time, felt the need for a social app that promoted honesty, and they made it happen by ensuring anonymity.
Tellonym made quite an impression particularly with younger users, gaining millions of users in Germany and Europe at large. The app hasn’t been without its critics however, with media headlines drawing attention to how it could be abused for cyberbullying while protecting the identity of the offenders.
It should be noted that all social media come with these risks, and the team behind Tellonym have installed safety features to fight such behaviour, while they’ve also brought in stricter parental protection measures.
It remains to be seen whether these help, or indeed if they negatively impact Tellonym’s popularity. However, while the app has been unable to shake bullying concerns, the fact that the app is still holding its own as a niche social medium, having grown with only seed funding, is impressive.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Completely flexible working times and location (we are doing half-yearly team retreats with hackathons)
- Flat hierarchies that offer lots of freedom, impact as well as responsibility
- The right environment to learn new things and personally develop yourself
- Competitive compensation package and the option to participate in our ESOP system
- Modern working tools, hardware (Macbook) also for private usage
- State-of-the-art tech stack running on AWS
- Work with an exceptional team of young and smart people with a diverse background
Leadership
Maximilian Rellin
(CEO)Co-founded Tellonym in 2016 while still a Computer Science & Economics student at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
Johannes Sorg
(COO)Was also still a student at at the University of Göttingen while co-founding the company.
Birger Naß
(Senior Frontend Development)Tellonym was their first entrepreneurial effort, having previously trained in Software Development at meetyoo conferencing.