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Websitecommunity.sk.ru/n...
Blogblog.altergeo.ru
Twitter@AlterGeo
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Phone+74999990839
Emailinfo@altergeo.ru
Employees30
Founded2008
Descriptionhybrid positioning technology and LBS's

Offices

HQ
19 bld.#5 Tsvetnoy Blvd.
Moscow, 127051, RUS

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Funding

TOTAL $11M
FUNDING TOTAL $11M
Venture Round, 1/09
Kite Ventures
$1M
Venture Round, 6/11
Intel Capital
Almaz Capital
Esther Dyson
$10M

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AlterGeo

Founded in 2008, AlterGeo (formerly known as Wi2Geo) develops a hybrid positioning system which combines the advantages of navigation based on WiFi, WiMAX, GSM, GPS, CDMA, IP and several other methods, and is an author of Russia’s leading cross-platform location-based social networking service AlterGeo. In November 2012, the company released an intelligent restaurant guide, Gvidi, a free iOS-app based on sophisticated collaborative filtering algorithms.

AlterGeo has already been recognized internationally. In January 2013, the company won The Europas as the Best Russian Startup and was shortlisted for the Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup there. In 2012, AlterGeo was given the Bully Award, named finalist of Red Herring Top 100 Global and Europe, and included in Informilo’s list of Russia’s Top 25 Hottest Tech Companies.

Products

  • The company’s technological platform positions 30M+ devices and serves 170M+ locations on a daily basis. It includes back-end positioning algorithms, data of 110M+ unique WiFi and other radio signals spots and stations across the world, API for partners, and SDK’s for all major mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Phone 7, and Mac OS.

  • The social network, AlterGeo (http://altergeo.ru), helps navigate in and around cities. It provides an easy way to find new interesting places around, share current location with friends, give and receive useful recommendations, and get discounts and bonuses in restaurants and other recreational and business venues. AlterGeo is available at http://altergeo.ru and its mobile version http://m.altergeo.ru, as well as through free mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Bada. Currently AlterGeo enjoys the audience of 1M+ users, mostly in Russia and Ukraine.

  • The mobile recommendations service, Gvidi (http://gvidi.ru), studies its users’ private preferences and social graph in order to give them personal recommendations about certain surrounding cafes, bars or restaurants.

Recent Milestones

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    AlterGeo — AlterGeo won The Europas as the Best Russian Startup (1/23/13)
    Posted 1/23/13 at 10:46pm via techcrunch.com
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    AlterGeo — AlterGeo released Gvidi, a smart personal restaurant guide for iOS http://gvidi.ru (11/7/12)
    Posted 1/23/13 at 10:46pm via ruformator.ru
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    AlterGeo — AlterGeo closed third round of financing (6/9/11)
    Posted 6/9/11 at 9:23pm via ewdn.com
  • Dollar
    AlterGeo received $10M in Venture Round funding. (6/9/11)
    Posted 6/9/11 at 7:23pm via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    AlterGeo received $1M in Venture Round funding. (1/1/09)
    Posted 3/29/12 at 10:01pm via cnews.ru

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Products

AlterGeo (social network)

Websitealtergeo.ru
Blogblog.altergeo.ru
StageLive
Launch Date2008

AlterGeo (technology)

Websitecommunity.sk.ru/net/1120279
Blogblog.altergeo.ru
StageBeta
Launch Date2008

Gvidi

Websitegvidi.ru
Blogblog.altergeo.ru
StageLive
Launch DateNovember 7, 2012

Gvidi is your personal intelligent guide to cafes, restaurants and bars nearby. Gvidi chooses the best food locations to match your private taste, offers individual recommendations on where to go, and allows you to book tables at ones.

Wanna eat deliciously? Gvidi will suggest a food venue to your personal liking. It studies your preferences, interests and habits, forecasts the level of your sympathy for one or another restaurant or bar, and recommends certain places which will suit you best.

Give ratings to cafes, bars and restaurants you have been to before, and connect your Gvidi account to social networks in order to be provided with increasingly more accurate personalized recommendations. Watch what places your friends visit and like, share your own impressions, find new interesting food locations around, see their photos, visitors’ reviews and other useful information, book tables, and get special discounts with Gvidi.

The following features are at your service:

  • huge database of cafes, bars and restaurants;
  • sophisticated algorithms to assess compliance of food locations with your individual tastes and preferences; system-defined generation of personalized recommendations;
  • handy food venue search by multiple criteria (WiFi, non-smoking areas, average check, and so on), with the option of sorting the results by recommendations or distance;
  • built-in table booking system;
  • unique set of special discounts at cafes, bars and restaurants;
  • opportunity to see food locations’ photos and reviews, as well as rate places and leave your own comments and photos;
  • social tools for communication with friends: information on which cafes, bars and restaurants your friends visit, like and dislike, as well as the opportunity to share impressions with them both in the app and by cross-posting to your favourite social networks;
  • map of food locations nearby, and directions to them.
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Sources

  1. ‘Russian Foursquare’ attracts investment from top funds and angel investor Esther Dyson (eng.cnews.ru) [edit]
  2. AlterGeo, The Foursquare-Of-Russia, Raises $10M From Intel Capital And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Russia’s ‘Foursquare’ funded by top funds and angel investor Esther Dyson (ewdn.com) [edit]
    The Europas – Europe’s Tech Startup Oscars – Showcases A Booming European Scene (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Создатели AlterGeo выпустили умный навигатор по барам (ruformator.ru) [edit]
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