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Pelago Inc

http://www.pelago.com/

Last activity: 09.09.2024

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Pelago employees are the brains and brawn behind Whrrl and Tweet2Go. Pelago was founded to revolutionize the way people experience and explore the physical world. Whrrl, the company's flagship product, is a social location-based game with a purpose- to get people back into the real world by providing highly relevant and personalized recommendations of new places to go and things to do. Whrrl is currently available for the iPhone and Android, and at m.whrrl.com. Tweet2Go is a full-service Twitter app for Verizon phones. Pelago was founded in 2006, is based in Seattle, and led by an executive team from companies including Amazon.com, RealNetworks and Yahoo. The company is backed by pioneering Internet and mobile investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bezos Expeditions, T-Venture, Trilogy Equity Partners and Reliance Technology Ventures. For more information, visit www.pelago.com and www.whrrl.com.

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Location: United States, Washington, Seattle

Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $15M

Founded date: 2006

Funding Rounds 1

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
26.05.2008	Series B	$15M	-

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25.04.2011	Groupon Buys Pelago In Stock Deal; Reliance Venture Exits	Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd, the venture capital arm of Reliance Capital, is on an exit mode. After managing an IPO exit when Sequans Communications listed in New York Stock Exchange two weeks ago, the venture firm has received an...
21.04.2011	No Coupons Here, Just Cash: Groupon Files For Another $6 Million	Groupon has a fever, and the only prescription is more funding. According to this SEC form, the daily deal giant has received yet another infusion of capital, this time at just over $6 million. This comes on the heels of Groupon’s recent $1...
19.04.2011	Groupon goes shopping again, buying and retiring Whrrl creator Pelago	Group shopping site Groupon is continuing its buying spree, acquiring the parent company of check-in service Whrrl late Monday, dubbed Pelago, which the company said in a blog post it would retire on April 30. Pelago was one of the first co...
18.04.2011	Groupon Acquires Whrrl Creator Pelago	Daily deals site Groupon has acquired Whrrl parent company Pelago this afternoon. The iFund-backed Pelago is most famous for its Whrrl product, which is a Foursquare-like LBS services app that allows people to check into places. Pelago CEO ...
18.04.2011	Groupon gobbles up Pelago, but plans to unplug its mobile check-in app Whrrl	Team Pelago (Photo via Carlos Paradinha Jr.) Groupon is pushing deeper into the mobile world today, gobbling up Seattle startup Pelago for an undisclosed price. Tricia Duryee at All Things D has more details, noting that co-founder Jeff Hol...
18.04.2011	Groupon Could Take Out Foursquare with Pelago Acquisition	All Things Digital reports that Groupon has acquired Pelago, the company behind location-based check-in service Whrrl, for an undisclosed amount. Whrrl allows users to check in to locations and discover new businesses nearby, while the Grou...
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02.11.2007	Whrrl: Map and Mobile-Centric Social Reviews	Sometimes products are easy to sum up in single sentences, sometimes they are most definitely not. Whrrl, a new site by Pelago, is one of those that eludes definition. Hence, Pelago’s need to describe it unhelpfully as “a seamlessly integra...

Pelago Inc

Funding Rounds 1

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