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15Five

15Five

Employee-Manager Feedback tool - 15 mins to write: 5 to read [Tech]

Productivity·Launched Jun 2014·0 upvotes·15five.com
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ALIVEverified Aug 27, 2026 · HTTP 200
CohortClass of 2014

What it is

Employee-Manager Feedback tool - 15 mins to write: 5 to read [Tech]

HTTP liveness

34 probes since Jun 16
Jun 16Aug 27
AliveHard-dead (404/5xx/parked)RedirectedUnverified (timeout/DNS/block)

Observed events

probes · press · GitHub
  1. Jun 16, 2026
    First probe — live
    Alive · 200 OK

Funding history

2 rounds
Total raised
$38.7M
Latest valuation
Stage
early
Series A
Jul 2019
investors undisclosed
$30.7M
SEC
Seed
Oct 2018
investors undisclosed
$8.0M
SEC
Data from SEC EDGAR Form D filings and press coverage. Round labels for SEC filings are inferred from filing sequence and amount.

Moat

None apparent

The product does not exhibit a clear defensibility mechanism. It operates in a space with comparable products, suggesting a potentially crowded market.

The dossier evidence for this assessment includes the product's description as an Employee-Manager Feedback tool and its tags, which indicate a collaborative and real-time capability.

The moat could be eroded by the presence of comparable products such as switchboard.chat, lesson.ly, and others, which operate in similar spaces and may offer similar functionalities, making it challenging for 15Five to differentiate itself and establish a durable competitive advantage.

  • tagscollaborative and real-time capability
  • comparablescomparable products with similar tags
0.50 confidence · grounded in 2 sources
Grounded analysis from tags, and comparables · Jul 2026

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Pulse Indexobserved activity
34 probes0 pressGitHub –Tranco –

Not enough observed signals for a Pulse Index (needs 2+ signal families).

Founders
David Hassell
Cohort survival · Class of 2014weekly

10,235 products launched in 2014 · 99% still active

10,131 active104 sunset
Still active
99%
Median lifespan
4.9y