Localmind

http://www.localmind.com/

Last activity: 17.12.2012

Probably Closed

Categories: Internet

Localmind gives you the ability to know what's happening anywhere in the world right now. We do this by temporarily and anonymously connecting you to someone at the location you are interested in, allowing you to ask any question you want about that location, and get an answer in real-time.

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Overview

Employees

51-200

Phone

858-382-4809

Total raised

$600K

Founded date

2010

Funding Rounds 1

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Dec 13, 2012	Airbnb Aims To Get More Social With Acquisition Of Q&A Startup Localmind	Airbnb is announcing that it has acquired Localmind, a startup that allows users to post questions about specific locations, which are then answered in real time by local experts. Airbnb has acquired the company’s three-person team and its ...
Dec 13, 2012	Why did Airbnb just buy Localmind? Local expertise	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Locals know best. That’s the new mantra of community-powered hotel alternative Airbnb and the primary reason behind its acquisition of ...
Mar 13, 2012	Localmind Aspires to Answer Questions Around the Globe	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Last weekend, Localmind founders Lenny Rachitsky and Beau Haugh took their location-driven question-and-answer app back to South by Southwest, where it first launched a year a...
Feb 26, 2012	Almost Three: A Brief History Of Foursquare Time (And A Look At Its Future)	Editor’s note: AJ Arora is a former Yahoo! product guy and one-time TechCrunch intern. He currently works on startups in local discovery and e-commerce. In anticipation of Foursquare’s three-year anniversary, AJ examines the success of Four...
Feb 15, 2012	With Localmind 2.0, It’s About Expert Local Answers, Not Just Immediate Ones	Following five months of work, location-based Q&A platform Localmind is launching its biggest release today since its original debut with the arrival of Localmind 2.0. The newly revamped platform represents a shift for the company, whic...
Nov 9, 2011	Need travel advice? Uptake connects you to Facebook friends who know best	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Planning a getaway? Uptake, a social travel site ...
Nov 9, 2011	Need travel advice? Uptake connects you to Facebook friends who know best	Planning a getaway? Uptake, a social travel site for the inquisitive trip planner, can now pass your pressing travel inquiries on to Facebook friends who may have the answers. The three year-old startup, which houses vacation experiences fo...
Nov 3, 2011	Eight Fast Pitch nominees to go head-to-head in blitzkrieg VentureBeat competition. Who will win?	Eight startups enter. One startup leaves. Much like the Thunderdome, VentureBeat’s Fast Pitch competition next week will be a speedy, raucous, show-no-mercy affair. With luck it will be a lot less violent, however. Eight startups will take ...
Sep 10, 2011	The Fragmented Mobile Information Race	Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’...
Aug 31, 2011	On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Location Data to Your Search Results	Search tool Wajam is rolling out a new feature today to its browser extension that overlays links shared by your friends on Twitter and Facebook at the top of the page when you perform a search on Google. (Or Bing.) Now Wajam puts a sidebar...
Aug 16, 2011	Mobile App Makes Your Friends’ Phones Your Eyes & Ears Around Town: Localmind Adds Photos & More	Mobile location service Localmind believes it knows what the future of place-based social networking looks like. It lets you use your phone to ask questions of people who are hanging out at a restaurant, bar, park or other venue. “How crowd...
Aug 16, 2011	Localmind’s check-in app update gives you the power of omniscience	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. When mobile location service Foursquare released its API, Lenny Rachitsky wondered what he could do with all of that data. Foursquare i...
Aug 8, 2011	Local Q&A Service Localmind Comes to Android, Prepares to Target Business Owners	Location-based Q&A service Localmind is arriving on Android today, after closing a round of $600,000 in angel funding back in July. The company is also working on several developments to appeal to business owners, who will soon be able ...
Jul 13, 2011	Location-Based Q&A Platform Localmind Raises $600K	Location-based Q&A platform and Robert Scoble’s 2011 SXSW favorite pick Localmind has raised $600,000 in angel funding led by Granite Ventures with Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Ian Sobieski, Peter Bordes, Ty Danco, Zach Aarons, and As...
Apr 20, 2011	Loopt Introduces Qs: Real-Time Polls in Place of Reviews	Think about your average, smartphone-enabled visit to a new restaurant: You sit down, take a gander at the menu and quickly pull out your phone to look up the latest Foursquare tips and Yelp reviews. Some are novels of glowing hyperbole whi...
Mar 22, 2011	Poll Results: Hurricane Party Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011	After a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services ...
Mar 17, 2011	Poll: What’s The Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011?	In the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people's real-time check-in att...
Feb 9, 2011	Social Q&A Goes Local With Crowdbeacon's iPhone App	Social Q&A services are springing up everywhere because often search is too cumbersome or imprecise to answer our questions. This is especially true on mobile phones. A new iPhone app called Crowdbeacon attempts to answer your questions...

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FAQ about Localmind

When was Localmind founded?

Localmind was founded in 2010.

How much funding has Localmind raised?

Localmind has raised $600K in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Localmind?

Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning Localmind, among them “Airbnb Aims To Get More Social With Acquisition Of Q&A Startup Localmind” (Dec 13, 2012) and “Why did Airbnb just buy Localmind? Local expertise” (Dec 13, 2012).

Is Localmind still active?

Localmind is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 17, 2012.