Doblet
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Doblet was a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2014 by CEO Doktor Gurson and CTO Jeff Chang, a Y Combinator-backed hardware company. It built a network of app-driven portable batteries: location-based charging points where individuals could borrow a battery to charge their phones on demand. Competitors included ChargeBox, myCharge and Voltani. The company raised $1.42 million and had 11 employees.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Doktor Gurson and Jeff Chang founded Doblet in San Francisco in 2014: an app-driven network of portable batteries with location-based charging points for on-demand phone charging; the company raised $1.42 million.
- Out of business
PitchBook records Doblet as Out of Business; no shutdown date or cause was publicly documented.
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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