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Backdoor, an anonymous messaging app created by 14-year-old Daniel Singer, announced a $200,000 seed round from ArpexCapital this week.
Backdoor, which just hit the app store this year, already has 100,000 downloads because of its rare social messaging experience that gives senders anonymity, while also allowing message recipients to receive clues about the sender. (Don’t worry, users only receive messages from groups of approved friends.)
Singer founded Backdoor for many of the same reasons that he started YouTell.com: so that friends can give each other honest, personal feedback anonymously.
“I think that anonymity is a crucial part in the social sphere; it’s been around in many forms for millennia,” Singer said. “I think the fact that, especially with Backdoor, you know that you know this person -- but you don’t know who specifically -- is really interesting and allows you to have fun that you can’t have anywhere else such as Facebook.”
Backdoor’s seemingly anti-Facebook concept of anonymity has allowed about 2 million incognito messages to be sent among friends so far. And as Backdoor looks “down the pipeline,” Singer said he welcomes collaboration and feedback from the LA digital startup community.
“I love meeting with other entrepreneurs and seeing what other people are doing, so if you have something you want to talk about, or want to meet, you can hit me up on Twitter."
