The original version is still in app stores but Blank and his co-founder Chris Calmeyn took the insights they got from its users and built an entirely new app for Android and iOS.Ĭaliber connects with your LinkedIn profile, imports your contacts, asks you for your interests and suggests relevant professionals you might want to connect with. They wanted to be able to message people they know.” The people that didn’t felt that swiping to find people didn’t work. The people who like it, loved the messaging. We had a group of people that were very engaged and a group of people that weren’t. “When we first released a version of Caliber, nine months ago, it was ‘Tinder for professional networking’. It applied the swipe left/swipe right model to making business connections but it’s now shed that idea to become a really handy professional messaging app.Īndres Blank, Caliber’s CEO and co-founder, explains the change to TNW: There’s been a lot of ‘Tinder for X’ companies over the past few years – I wrote about another one yesterday – and Caliber started out like that last year.

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