Tello

Tello (Tello Applications, Inc.) was a customer-feedback and customer-service ratings startup founded in 2010 in Palo Alto, California by Joe Beninato and backed by 500 Global. It offered a free web and mobile application that let consumers rate and comment on their in-person service experiences at businesses (including feedback on specific employees), and sold businesses paid dashboard access to monitor how their staff were rated. The company has since shut down; no live product, developer program, or public API surface remains, so this record is retained as a defunct-company profile rather than an active provider for enrichment.

Tello is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Customer Feedback, Customer Service, Reviews and Ratings, and Software-as-a-Service.

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Company Customer Feedback Customer ServiceReviews and RatingsSoftware-as-a-Service Mobile App Defunct

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tello
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tello.png
name: Tello
description: Tello (Tello Applications, Inc.) was a customer-feedback and customer-service ratings startup founded in 2010
  in Palo Alto, California by Joe Beninato and backed by 500 Global. It offered a free web and mobile application that let
  consumers rate and comment on their in-person service experiences at businesses (including feedback on specific employees),
  and sold businesses paid dashboard access to monitor how their staff were rated. The company has since shut down; no live
  product, developer program, or public API surface remains, so this record is retained as a defunct-company profile rather
  than an active provider for enrichment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tello/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2010'
x-founder: Joe Beninato
x-headquarters: Palo Alto, CA, USA
x-note: The company Tello Applications (customer-feedback SaaS) is closed. The domain tello.com now hosts an unrelated active
  company (Tello Mobile, a US MVNO) and does NOT belong to this portfolio company; no Website pointer is asserted to avoid
  conflating the two.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Customer Feedback
- Customer Service
- Reviews and Ratings
- Software-as-a-Service
- Mobile App
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- Company
- Customer Feedback
- Customer Service
- Reviews and Ratings
- SaaS
- Mobile App
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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