‘After School’ is an app for high school students to post anonymously to their classmates, but it got banned for 4 months from Apple’s App Store for violating company safety guidelines.
But this year the company just raised $16.4 million in a new round of venture funding by Accomplice, Cowboy Ventures and individuals like Parse co-founder Tikhon Bernstam and AngelList founder Naval Ravikant.
Shortly after its launch, the app was laden with high school students who took advantage of the anonymity to bully & threaten one another, forcing parents and school to start a media war against it. Only after the app implemented new safety measures, including a team of curators to monitor every post did Apple restore the app to its App store.
