Goosebump
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Goosebump was a Paris-based chatbot built in 2017 by Raphael Doulonne, Axel Delafosse and Henry Fontanier as a Y Combinator Summer 2017 company. It helped users find live and electronic music events through a single message on Facebook Messenger. The company raised a seed round from The Family, Kima Ventures and Y Combinator, with total funding of about $500,000.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launched
Goosebump launched as a Y Combinator Summer 2017 company in Paris and raised a seed round from The Family, Kima Ventures and Y Combinator.
- Defunct
The company is listed as Inactive by Y Combinator and Closed by startup data trackers; no public announcement of a closure date was found.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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