Aka-aki

S‍ummery

Founding, development and marketing of the first successful location-based mobile social network in Germany and France, including successful fundraising.

Industry

Technology

Entrepreneurship

Palomino founded aka-aki in 2006 and led aka-aki until 2011 and was responsible for marketing, business development, PR, sales, art direction and investor relations.

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Outcome

Founded in 2006, the company achieved worldwide fame and delighted millions of users. aka-aki has received international awards, including as Best Mobile Social Network at the 13th Annual Webby Awards, with Innovator Prize The French newspaper Le Monde as well as the Bitkom Innovation Prize. In addition, aka-aki received broad media attention and was received, among others, by CNN, The Times, TechCrunch, Economist, Le Monde, Spiegel, FAZ and France2 presented.