Pinterest, Inc. is a visual discovery engine that enables users to find inspiration for various aspects of their lives, such as recipes, home decor, fashion, and travel. Launched in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on curated boards tailored to their personal interests. With a user base of nearly 500 million monthly active users, a significant portion of whom are female, Pinterest facilitates the discovery and sharing of creative ideas. The company generates revenue primarily through digital advertising and is increasingly incorporating e-commerce features within its platform. Although about 20% of its users are located in the US and Canada, this region accounted for approximately 80% of its revenue in 2023.
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 is an award-winning virtual keyboard technology provider. For consumers, the popular Fleksy keyboard is available to download on both Android and iOS. The Fleksy keyboard aims to give full control over customization and elevate anyone's smartphone typing experience. Fleksy's mobile apps count for more than 20 million downloads globally. For businesses, the Fleksy Software Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Its clientele can then focus on their area of expertise & value-add for a monthly licensing fee.
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.
You might be designing a new building, planning the refurbishment of your home, working on the design of a new chair or preparing a sale pitch to your biggest client—you just want to organise your ideas, present your thoughts and not worry about the tool. This is why they have built Curator & Co. Curator & Co is the maker of Curator App.
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 are discovering the wonder in their well-worn paths and bringing out the best of their favorite ideas in a new mobile app coming in Fall 2014.
Smarter, personalized mobile ads. Kosei has a deep understanding of product relationships made by experts in recommender systems. Kosei delivers beautiful ads to consumers in the moments that matter.
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.
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 app that lets you get recommendations quickly and easily from critics, friends and people with the same taste as you. Currently Livestar provides recommendations for restaurants, movies, music and apps, with more categories coming soon. Livestar is founded by former Microsoft executive and investor Fritz Lanman, whose angel investments include Square and Pinterest, and its engineering team is comprised of primarily of former Amazon engineers. It is backed by world class investors in Silicon Valley, Seattle, LA and New York, including: SV Angel, Allen and Co, Betaworks, Paul Buchheit, Mitch Kapor, The Chernin Group, William Morris Endeavor, Hank Vigil, Ray Ozzie, Hadi and Ali Partovi, Matt Mullenweg, Morado Ventures and others.
Punchfork makes it easier to find the best new recipes from popular sites like 101 Cookbooks, The Pioneer Woman, Leite's Culinaria, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes and The Kitchn. We use conversations on social networks to bring you high quality recipes that passionate cooks are talking about right now.
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