Trulia most folks have likely heard of; the company wants to making finding a residence easier with data and maps: Movity aggregates the geodata from a variety of sources and uses it to provide rich insights into any location. Movity is still in beta and does sort of the same thing, with a focus on more kinds of data (“geo-data, local comments, conversations, safety
stats, demographics, noise”) but also with a focus on maps and visualization. One of the folks is from cartography/design superstar Stamen Designs and the company is probably best know for WeePlaces.com, which I’ve mentioned before (1,2). It’s business model: advertising.
With the acquisition Trulia is moving to downtown San Francisco (so the staff can go to all those LBS conferences, no doubt!)
- Trulia Blog (Exactly no comments to the post as of 7:30 am EST, though this was announced yesterday. I’m not sure if folks don’t care, don’t understand or are busy with the holidays…)
- SF Business Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 06:16 AM |
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The company acquired Map Link and dissolved it and it now ready integrate its assets. Map Link had been a $12 million company at one time, but EVC purchased the name and assets for $150,000 in October. Map Link should be back up and running as East View Map Link by the middle of January.
Map Link filed for bankruptcy two years ago and left many creditors (including Rand McNally, Hagstrom Map, and DeLorme) to lose more than $100,000 each. Map Link is in the retail print map business, a new area for EVC.
- Publisher’s Weekly
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/21 at 06:00 AM |
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So it is with great pride that we announce we have closed $25m of funding, in a round led by our existing investors, Blue Run Ventures, Magma and Vertex, together with new strategic investors, including Qualcomm Ventures. We would like to thank our existing investors for their support and welcome our new investors, as we look forward to their help in making our service even better.
- Waze blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/08 at 06:18 AM |
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Sunstone Capital funded startups including Layar and Cloudmade and are now funding InfoHubble, a company founded by Pieter Grasdijk (CEO) and Maarten Janssen (CTO) who sold their iLocal to TomTom in 2009. Per TechCrunch:
InfoHubble provides rich real-time mapping of such things as Point of Interest (POI) details: company data (opening hours); brand data (labels, products); review data (user reviews); inventory data (stock); and all of it is geo-coded. Its data-sets are licensed to Yellow Page providers, online map services and local search engines.
- TechCrunch
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/07 at 10:36 AM |
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The market research firm ABI Research has packaged a series of reports called "Smart Cities Research Cluster" that gather intelligence on the market size for a variety of location-enabled applications. These applications include
- Fleet Management
- Public Safety
- Smart Meters for Smart Grids
- Traffic Information Systems
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Wireless Sensor Networks
...and several more. It’s worth looking into if you have to look at the potential for each segment.
by Joe Francica on 12/06 at 02:49 PM |
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Narrow your search further:
cloud computing,
geospatial business,
gps,
lbs market sizing,
location intelligence,
logistics,
navigation,
rfid,
routing,
sensors,
tracking,
traffic
