CollabFinder
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
CollabFinder was a co-founder and collaborator matchmaking platform built by Sahadeva Hammari (a UCLA philosophy graduate who had worked with Seth Godin on Squidoo). He described it as a 'serendipity engine': users filled out profiles detailing skills, experience, and interests, got instantly connected to a pool of people who wanted to start new projects or shared mutual friends, and contacted each other through a built-in messaging system. Early success stories included the founders of the manufacturing services startup Maker's Row, who met through the site.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Relaunch
CollabFinder relaunched its platform (per Fast Company coverage), positioning itself as a 'serendipity engine' for connecting potential collaborators; founder Sahadeva Hammari set out to make it easy to find co-founders and project partners.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Founded in 2013 as a co-founder matchmaking platform.
- 02
No audited loss figure was publicly disclosed.