Tickendy
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Tickendy was a Madrid startup founded in 2017 by César De Pablo Huete, billed as the worlds first contactless digital receipt processing and analytics platform. Through an NFC system, stores digitized customers purchase receipts and stored them in the users mobile app, turning receipts into retail analytics data.
02 / Tickendy FAILURE REASONS
Failure factors supported by the current evidence
No public post-mortem explains why Tickendy closed; the company is simply listed as shut down. It raised only a $220,000 pre-seed round in March 2022, and the founding teams tenures ended in late 2023 and early 2024. With no founder statements or press coverage available, the specific reasons are undocumented.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
César De Pablo Huete founds Tickendy in Madrid to digitize purchase receipts via contactless NFC.
- Peak funding round
Tickendy raises a $220,000 pre-seed round in March 2022.
- Operations ended
The founder and core team leave by late 2023; the company is listed as shut down.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Contactless digital receipts via NFC
- 02
Founded 2017 in Madrid
- 03
Only $220K pre-seed raised
- 04
Listed as shut down; reasons undocumented