Company
Rabblester Inc.
A Cleveland, Ohio company founded in 2013, formerly venture-backed, which built a customer collaboration workspace and reached a beta on the web in 2015. PitchBook records it as out of business; the domain was parked by 2017.
This site is a rebuild of what the company published, at the two points where it published it.
At a glance
- Founded2013
- BasedCleveland, Ohio
- Employees201 (PitchBook)
- IndustryBusiness / Productivity Software
- FinancingFormerly VC-backed
- StatusOut of business
Timeline
Two products, one domain
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2013
The company is founded
PitchBook records Rabblester as founded in 2013, based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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2014
A social shopping landing page
The first archived site is a pre-launch page: “Social Shopping Made Simple”, searching social networks, blogs, images and videos for the most socially popular products, with an invite request form.
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2015
The customer collaboration product
The site becomes “Customer collaboration app for the 21st century” — a workspace for sharing advertisements, concepts, designs, documents and prototypes with customers, with a beta invite.
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2017
The domain goes quiet
By May 2017 rabblester.com serves a Japanese domain-parking page, and by 2019 an unrelated site. PitchBook lists the company as out of business.
What the record leaves out
No founder names, funding round sizes, customers or pricing were ever published on the company’s own site, and none appear here. The PitchBook profile supplies the location, the employee count, the financing status and the company’s end.
The idea that outlived the product
Testing a product or a campaign with real customers before launch is now ordinary practice, with a crowded tool market around it. In 2015 Rabblester was pitching it as a workspace rather than a survey.