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LoKast is a mobile platform for Spaces – mediums used by application providers, businesses, and organizers to enhance their apps, places, media, events, settings, and activities, by instantly engaging their users interactively and providing a forum for their users to instantly message and share rich media as a group and 1-on-1. LoKast is made by NearVerse, a company dedicated to building the most real-time and rich functionality, mobile cloud service for Spaces. NearVerse is based in New York City, and hiring talented engineers and marketers to join us - apply at [email protected]!
Overview
Location
United States, New York
Employees
1-10
Mentions in press and media 7
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| Feb 22, 2012 | Villanova University part of $2.4m grant to inspire engineering entrepreneurs, PalmLing launches demo [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know | There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probabl... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | New Wave of Social Networks Have You “Friending” Your Location | This morning, another new startup launched a mobile social networking application where location is the primary feature and friends comes second. Banjo, which shows you all the people nearby upon first launch, is one of many similar service... |
| May 25, 2011 | LoKast Relaunches Group Messaging App With Photo, Video, Music Sharing | We’ve written previously about NearVerse’s mobile app LoKast, a proximity based mobile social network. Today, the company is debuting a new version of its iOS app, which combines group messaging with location proximity and media sharing. On... |
| May 25, 2010 | You Vote, We Go: Startup Alley Twitter Challenge | If you’re watching our livestream of Techcrunch Disrupt, you’re getting every minute of every keynote, panel and Startup Battlefield presentation, but you’re missing out on the dozens of companies in Startup Alley. We’re trying to fix that.... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | What Background Location Brings to the iPhone | In the midst of the SXSW festival last month, we reviewed a mobile social network called LoKast. Our one lingering question about the app’s utility, at the time, was were we really going to run around town staring at our phone to see if som... |
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FAQ about LoKast
What has the press written about LoKast?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning LoKast, among them “Villanova University part of $2.4m grant to inspire engineering entrepreneurs, PalmLing launches demo [Startup Roundup]” (Feb 22, 2012) and “The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know” (Sep 16, 2011).
Is LoKast still active?
Yes, LoKast is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 6, 2012.