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TalkBin

Consumer to business messaging.

Y CombinatorWinter 2011AcquiredB2BRetailMessagingCustomer Service

What they do

Problem

Businesses lack an easy way to receive and manage customer feedback and messages tied to specific locations and experiences.

Solution

TalkBin provides a consumer-to-business messaging platform that lets users send feedback to businesses and enables businesses to collect and respond to messages, integrated into Google Maps.

Who it's for

Local businesses and brands that want to collect and respond to customer messages and feedback, especially via Google Maps.

Founders

Qasar Younis
Founder/CEO

Founder of Applied Intuition

Sunny Dhillon
Founder

Proven leader with hands-on development and management experience in designing, building, and delivering scalable, fault-tolerant, highly-available user-facing applications in complex technical, organizational and market environments. Managed teams of 35+ across web, Android, and iOS. Previous roles with Google Search, Gmail, Google Chat, Verily, and Google Maps. Co-founder of TalkBin (W11). Acquired by Google in 2011.

Michael Ma
Founder/COO

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