Loopt Overview
Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to people, places and events. Users can also share location updates, geo-tagged photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online social networks, communities and...More»
Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to people, places and events. Users can also share location updates, geo-tagged photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online social networks, communities and blogs. Loopt was designed with user privacy at its core and offers a variety of effective and intuitive privacy controls.«Less
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| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 06/2005 | Seed | 0.015M | Unknown | |
| 2006 | Series A | 8M | Unknown | |
| 07/2007 | Series B | 8.25M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | Loopt - iPhone |
| Product URL: | http://www.loopt.com/phones/iphone |
| Description: | With Loopt, turn your iPhone™ into a social compass and never be lonely, bored or hungry again! Pinch, tap and drag an interactive map to find where your friends are and what they're doing. Connect on the fly and instantly share photos and comments with all your friends and communities like Facebook® and others. Discover and explore nearby places and events recommended by friends and popular local services such as Yelp®. You can always change your privacy settings if you don't want to be found. |
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User Opinions
Bulls vs. Bears (14)
| Bullish Opinions (10) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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sounds a great concept but the devil liehidden s in the execution. |
wellness360 03/06/2009 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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It looks like it should fly! |
bbrunelle 08/07/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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Loopt appear on they way to bring GPS usage to the mainstream |
eugeneiwami 07/25/2008 |
67% 3 votes 2 33% 1 |
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bringing location into social networking has potential - espec. with links to e.g. tripit & dopplr |
maafjes 06/28/2008 |
75% 4 votes 3 25% 1 |
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They now offer Blackberry support |
john 06/14/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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Featured App Status for iPhone will boost them a lot |
green33 06/12/2008 |
75% 4 votes 3 25% 1 |
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Sprint and Verizon? AT&T won't pass this up on the iPhone |
green33 04/14/2008 |
56% 9 votes 5 44% 4 |
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They just signed Verizon as a carrier as of March 2008 |
danl 03/28/2008 |
88% 8 votes 7 12% 1 |
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They now have a location based application platform |
angel 01/17/2008 |
100% 12 votes 12 0% 0 |
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More cell phones will be GPS enabled over time |
dave 01/16/2008 |
100% 13 votes 13 0% 0 |
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| Bearish Opinions (4) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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Provides location but doesn't really catalyze interaction IMHO |
kenny 07/28/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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Location based communities are not very scalable |
eyoung 05/20/2008 |
67% 6 votes 4 33% 2 |
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Tracking poeple by location could have privacy issues |
kryan 02/07/2008 |
78% 9 votes 7 22% 2 |
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The founding team is relatively inexperienced |
dave 02/07/2008 |
71% 7 votes 5 29% 2 |
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