Wallflowerme, Inc.

Enabling event-based sponsor-driven private chats and social transactions

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location Washington, D.C., DC, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2010
  • Employees 4
  • Website wallflowerme.com

Company Summary

Wallflower is a social lubricant for club goers to safely interact and frictionlessly send drinks and promotions to one another. Wallflower's business model elevates the existing club and venue promotion business of the spirits companies ($24B annually) with a social tool with greater branding and engagement than existing methods of in-venue promotion. Wallflower also provides engagement analytics previously unavailable to brands and venues.

Team

  • Theo Sedlmayr
    CEO

    Theo, a lawyer and active investor/ entrepreneur, founded a boutique law firm in
    1995 rooted in music industry transactions where he serves as legal counsel and
    advisor to numerous award-winning, multi-platinum musical artists, producers,
    records labels, and various types of entertainment companies. He is a 1990 graduate
    of the University of Virginia and a 1993 graduate of Boston University School of Law.

  • Rachel Shannon-Solomon
    COO

    A native New Yorker and design guru turned entrepreneur, Rachel was the first hire by Wallflower's founding team. Prior to joining Wallflower, Rachel worked at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, liaising with
    clients, and assisting with events and extensive pre-sale administration. As Wallflower's COO she oversees venue relations, sponsorship sales, applied social research, product development and event integration. She is a graduate of Columbia Universi

  • Nat Brown
    CTO

    Nat, prior to his involvement as the CTO of Wallflower, was a co-founder of rel8tion, which sold recently to Facebook. He was also one of the co-founders and CTO of iLike.com, acquired by MySpace in 2009. Earlier in his career, Nat earned a reputation as one of Microsoft's foremost technical minds by creating the ActiveX/COM object model in the early 90s. He went on to play a seminal role in the creation of XML, DHTML, and the first XBox. Nat is

  • Jonathan Rheingold
    Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing

    Jonathan, an active entrepreneur and investor, worked for almost 20 years as Executive Publisher of privately-held Harris Publications, where he oversaw the launch and growth of titles focused on urban music and culture, such as XXL and ANTENNA. In 2009, he left Harris to form Musinart, www.musinart.com, one of the largest independent advertising networks focused principally on youth culture. As special consultant to Warner Music Group's Atlantic

Advisors

  • Kristopher Brown, Partner, Dechert LLC
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Ethan Hutchinson, Corporate Comptroller, Wallflowerme Inc.
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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