| Website | alikelist.com |
| Blog | blogs.alikelist.com |
| @alikelist | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 408-524-3025 |
| Employees | 11 |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Description | online personal directory of lists |
| Series A, 2008 | $5M |
AlikeList is a free online personal directory where users create lists of their favorite and most trusted businesses from a database of over 13 million U.S. business listings and share this list with friends and colleagues.
AlikeList is a way for friends to help friends make better decisions by making and sharing online lists of local businesses they like. It’s a word of mouth network that will help you make smarter, faster decisions about your purchases, from the common to the life saving. The founders’ combined experience working at Geocities, Smartpages, and Yahoo convinced them that one of the last big challenges of the Internet was delivering better and more relevant local search results. Online yellow pages are limiting and anonymous review sites are a mixed bag at best. It takes more than a database of reviews to become a user’s most valued local directory. You need trusted referrals from people like you - your friends and colleagues.
AlikeList allows users to create ‘Like’ lists of their trusted and favorite businesses and services where they live, work and play, and share their Like lists with friends and colleagues. AlikeList combines the comprehensive directory of the Internet Yellow Pages, the positive local reviews of Yelp, the trust and social networking utility of LinkedIn and the ranking power of Google. The list directory taps into the wisdom and experience of users’ friends and is fueled by trust.
Funded by venture capital firm Syncom Venture Partners which specializes in media and communications business investing particularly in underserved markets, AlikeList allows users to create lists of their favorite businesses from a database of over 13 million U.S. business listings and share this list with friends and colleagues. Because the recommended businesses are listed by category and location, users can search AlikeList to quickly find recommended local businesses in a single category or multiple categories, in any city, with three clicks or less. Users can easily view which local businesses are liked by which friends or view a list of all friends’ recommended businesses in any combination of category or location. Using businesses and services recommended by trusted friends saves time and money.
