Wyst Digital, Inc

Wyst is an iPhone app that allows users to share moments, ideas and experiences via photos, links & text notes tagged to their location

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Mobile
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2011
  • Employees 2
  • Website wyst.it

Company Summary

Wyst is a new kind of message in a bottle: an iPhone app that enables users to share ideas, stories and experiences by tagging pictures, links and text notes to their location.
Through Wyst users can get a new perspective of their world as they see the stories others have shared nearby, capturing moments and leaving them behind for others to find.
Over 12,000 users in more than 80 countries have already downloaded Wyst.

Team

  • Iker Amerlinck Huerta
    Co-founder and CEO

    * 1.5 years in International Sales & Marketing for Venere Net, worldwide accommodation portal based in Rome, Italy
    * 5 years in Strategic Planning and Corporate Business Development for CEMEX, worldwide building materials leader
    * MBA with specialization in Entrepreneurship by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and NYU Stern School of Business
    * Languages. Fluent: English, French, Italian, Spanish. Basic: German

  • Yago Amerlinck Huerta
    Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

    * 5 years in Strategy for Digitas, the largest digital advertising agency in the world
    * Experience with clients such as American Express, NY Times, Mars, Samsung and Time Inc.
    * Leader of Digitas' Innovation task force team
    * Degree in Economics and Film by Columbia University, with full scholarship and academic honors
    * Languages. Fluent: English, French, Italian, Spanish. Basic: German, Mandarin Chinese

  • Iker Amerlinck-Huerta

Advisors

  • Ron Fleming, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    None
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Adolfo Autrey Maza
    Unconfirmed
    José Ignacio Domenech
    Unconfirmed
    Familia Amerlinck Huerta
    Unconfirmed

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