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Loopt, Inc. was an American company based in Mountain View, California, which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people. The service supported all the major mobile operating systems.
- 2005
- Sam Altman, CEO
Loopt. Loopt, based in Silicon-Valley and backed by leading venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates, has created an interoperable social-mapping service that allows individuals to use their location to discover the real world around them – enabling them to find and enjoy the people, places, and events that mean the ...
Loopt is a social service that connects people to their community through local intelligence, friends and deals. It was acquired by Green Dot in 2012 and has raised $39.1M in funding from Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates.
- Mountain View, California
- Alok Deshpande, Nick Sivo, Sam Altman
Loopt is a software development company that offers an interoperable social-mapping service that lets users find and enjoy people, places, and events nearby. Based in Mountain View, CA, Loopt has 11-50 employees and was founded in 2005.
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Sep 7, 2010 · Sam Altman, Loopt's 25-year-old co-founder and chief executive, spoke recently with Bloomberg contributor Antone Gonsalves about how his company, which has 4 million users and more than $17 ...
Mar 9, 2012 · Green Dot, a U.S. provider of prepaid debit cards, buys Loopt, a mobile location-based services company, in 2012. Loopt offers mobile rewards, deals, and social features, while Green Dot aims to use its patents and technology to expand its mobile banking and payment solutions.
Location-based social network Loopt has just updated its iPhone and BlackBerry applications, adding a hybrid map feature that allows you to view a single map (seen at right) that plots…
