On Stompstart by 12 February 2016 · Palo Alto · California · United States

CultureSphere.

A Palo Alto app that turned employees' photos and videos into brand marketing, and in 2017 sued HCL, alleging acquisition talks were used to copy it.

Marketing and salesJobs and HR

Timeline

  1. On record

    TechCrunch described CultureSphere's free iOS app, launched at the end of July 2015, in which curators unlock employees' photos and videos for wider sharing.

    On record · Announced
    techcrunch.com
  2. Listing page saved

    The Wayback Machine saved this listing page.

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  3. On record

    TechCrunch reported CultureSphere sued HCL, alleging HCL used acquisition talks, which had reached a price of about $20 million before breaking down in September 2016, to obtain confidential information and build a competing product; HCL called the allegations baseless.

    On record · Announced
    techcrunch.com
  4. Listed on Stompstart

    “The Next Frontier in Enterprise Advertising, Branding, and Recruiting!”

As listed on Stompstart

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“The Next Frontier in Enterprise Advertising, Branding, and Recruiting!”

CultureSphere is positioned to be the world's first PUBLIC enterprise social network powered by the private creation and then public curation of the most engaging content and stories told by the people most important to any brand or company – their employees!

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Enterprises
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Social networks
Platforms
Mobile
Location
Palo Alto · California · United States
culturesphereapp.com ↗twitter.com/CultureSphere1 ↗

In our words: The listing pitched CultureSphere as a public enterprise social network for advertising, branding and recruiting, built from stories created privately by a company's employees and then curated for public sharing. It called itself the world's first such network.

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Stories

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Sources

  1. venturebeat.com
  2. techcrunch.com
  3. techcrunch.com
  4. crunchbase.com
  5. craft.co
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