Issue

Mobile Magazines with Shoppable Stories. Inspire a increasingly mobile audience with story-driven shopping. More open, social & lightweight by Design

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2012
  • Employees 4
  • Website issueapp.com

Company Summary

Issue stands for Mobile magazines with Shoppable stories.

Incubated & funded by Angelpad. Winner of Mondelez's Mobile Future program. Mondlez spent $3Bn on global media buy, now realising 50% media consumption has gone mobile.

We address a key challenge for marketers & retailers: How to create stunning mini-mag & Shoppable Stories for online/mobile.

Change how brands use content in marketing across Mobile, Social & Affiliate marketing.

Team

  • Mark Guo
    Mobile engineer

    Mobile/Ruby Engineer at @Issue , Agile developer @Idealian, Final Year Thesis showcased for eLearning mobile App @UNSW 2011

  • Khoa Nguyen
    Big data engineer

    Big data guy @Issue, agile engineer @Idealian indexed voluminous sports betting data, played with humongous financial data on HPC platform @SIRCA, @UNSW 2005

  • Taylor Luk
    Founder

    Founder of @Issue • ANU '06 • @AngelPad Alum • Founded @Idealian, bootstrapped site to 0.5M daily hits in a year • Strong in UX/Collective intelligence

  • Stephen Russell
    Advisor

    CEO/Founder of Prism Skylabs. Leader in offline retail analytics. Helped startups like Uber, StumbleUpon, LongTail, OpenDNS +others, he holds 11 patents and was named #8 in the American Venture’s ‘Top 40 under 40’ list

  • Carine Magescas
    Advisor

    Partner @AngelPad, ex-Founder with focus @E-Commerce & @Mobile - passion for @Photography & Interior Design.

  • Thomas Korte
    Investor

    Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-@Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://angelpad.org/b/scoble-thomas-korte-2012/

  • Katherine Maree Pace
    Business development & Growth

    UNSW ’01 1st Class Honours. Helped scale business global in branding and product design

  • Nick Bowditch
    Advisor

    Ex-Facebook, Brand specialist at Twitter. Expert in Brand storytelling, Social media and marketing.

Advisors

  • Curtis Mo, DLA Piper SF
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    NIck Bowditch
    Advisor (Social, Branding, Marketing)
    Nick Gonios
    Advisor (Growth, Partnership)
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Thomas Korte
    Investor of Angelpad
    Unconfirmed
    Luky Family Trust
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
    Andrey Shirben
    Investor, Advisor
  • Imanuel Ross
    Investor, Advisor (Affiliate, Commerce)

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