Pinterest, Inc. is a visual discovery engine that facilitates the exploration and organization of ideas and inspirations across various domains, including recipes, home design, and travel. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, the platform allows users to save and categorize images on personalized boards. With a predominantly female user base, Pinterest boasts nearly 500 million monthly active users, with a significant portion coming from the United States and Canada, which also represents a substantial share of the company's revenue. Pinterest generates income primarily through digital advertising and is expanding its e-commerce capabilities within the platform. The company's mission is to help users discover and pursue their interests through visual content.
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Jelly
Acquisition in 2017
Jelly is an application that operates as a question and answer platform. Jelly relies on visual imagery to steer people to get better answers from within and outside their social networks. In particular, it encourages people to use photos to ask questions. The company was founded in 2013 by Biz Stone, one of Twitter's co-founders. Jelly was acquired by Pinterest in 2017.
Jelly is a human-powered discovery and search parsing engine driven by images, founded in April 2013 by Biz Stone and Ben Finkel. According to Biz Stone, the jellyfish was chosen to represent their product because it has a loose network of nerves that act as a “brain” similar to the way they envision loosely distributed networks of people coordinating via Jelly to help each other.
Instapaper is a web application that allows users to save online content for future references. Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content. It is a simple tool for saving web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad, Android, computer, or Kindle.
Math Camp
Acquisition in 2016
Math Camp also produced “Shorts”, an app that allowed you to share your smartphone’s photo library with friends, and “Roll,” which basically did the same thing but with a swipe-based user interface. Both those apps still seem to be up and running at present.
tote is a beautiful social shopping app that is entirely curated by people - notably stylists and fashion bloggers. Bloggers and stylists use tote's publishing platform to curate collections that can be shopped by their clients and followers. From a publishing perspective, tote is a bit like Medium built for fashion blogging. Some stylists at big retailers are using it for clienteling.
Fleksy, Inc. designs and delivers keyboard software for mobile devices. Its keyboard systems are available on Google Play, App Store, and Galaxy Gear. Fleksy, Inc. was formerly known as Syntellia, Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 15, 2016, Fleksy, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Pinterest, Inc..
URX empowers publishers to monetize mobile content and enables advertisers to drive mobile commerce. The world's most forward-thinking companies use URX to connect users directly to relevant commerce experiences.
Curator & Co is a company that specializes in visual storytelling through its mobile application, Curator App. The app enables users to collect and organize their thoughts visually, making it an effective tool for various purposes such as designing buildings, refurbishing homes, or preparing sales pitches. Users can seamlessly share their organized ideas directly within the app or create presentations, allowing for a streamlined and efficient approach to managing creative projects.
Pext is a mobile application that turns messages into memes. It helps individuals to discover images they need. They can send them to a group or person through social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Pext is a U.S.-based company and it was acquired by Pinterest on December 8, 2015.
Hike Labs is a developer of mobile and web products focused on the social space. The company creates social applications that enable users to establish and manage social websites on mobile devices. One of its notable products is Drafty, an application designed for iPhone users to facilitate blogging. Hike Labs aims to enhance user experience by integrating familiar concepts into its offerings, with plans to launch a new mobile app in Fall 2014 that highlights its innovative ideas.
Kosei, Inc. specializes in developing personalized mobile advertisements by utilizing advanced recommender systems to understand product relationships. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company collaborates with online and mobile partners to create tailored advertisements that enhance user engagement. Kosei's approach involves gathering data from users visiting websites or mobile applications, which allows for personalized product recommendations that resonate with consumer preferences. By effectively leveraging a product graph, Kosei aims to deliver visually appealing advertisements during critical moments, facilitating meaningful connections between consumers and products. As of early 2015, Kosei operates as a subsidiary of Pinterest, Inc.
Icebergs is a web-based application that enables its users to organize their projects, research, and inspirations. It was launched on February 6, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.
VisualGraph is a provider of advanced image recognition and visual search technologies, leveraging the expertise of a team that previously worked at Google. The company specializes in integrating machine vision tools, including object recognition, with sophisticated distributed search and machine learning frameworks. By combining these technologies, VisualGraph aims to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of visual search capabilities, catering to various applications in the realm of big data.
Hackermeter’s launch was met with its fair share of criticism, with most naysayers pointing out that similar ideas had been tested many a time before by companies like HackerRank, CodeEval, and a host of others — and yet, the good ol’ résumé lived on.
Livestar is a mobile application designed to provide users with quick and easy recommendations for restaurants, movies, music, and apps, leveraging insights from critics, friends, and like-minded individuals. Founded by Fritz Lanman, a former Microsoft executive and investor, Livestar boasts an engineering team primarily composed of former Amazon engineers. The platform also includes a feature that allows users to broadcast live video to friends and followers, enhancing social interaction and engagement. With backing from prominent investors across Silicon Valley, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York, Livestar aims to expand its recommendation categories while delivering a user-friendly experience.
Punchfork is an online platform that aggregates recipes from various popular cooking websites, including 101 Cookbooks, The Pioneer Woman, Leite's Culinaria, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, and The Kitchn. It focuses on curating high-quality recipes that are currently trending among passionate cooks by analyzing conversations on social media. Additionally, Punchfork offers social and analytical tools for food bloggers, enabling them to share their recipes and culinary insights with a broader audience. The platform aims to simplify the process of discovering new recipes while fostering community engagement within the culinary space.
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