| Website | chompapps.com |
| @chomp | |
| Category | Mobile/Wireless |
| Employees | |
| Description | App Discovery Service |
| Seed, 11/09 Ron Conway Auren Hoffman Aydin Senkut | $565k |
Chomp is a free iPhone app that is the best way to see the most relevant & personalized iPhone apps for you. With Chomp you can:
Additional info: App discovery is a huge problem on the iPhone. Apple announced on January, 5, 2010 that they have passed 3 billion app downloads, with 1 billion of those in the previous 3 months (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/05appstore.html). A recent AdMob report shows that on average, Americans download approximately 10 apps per month while iPod Touch users download 18 (http://metrics.admob.com/2009/08/july-2009-metrics-report/). The average spend on apps per month is $9 for users who regularly download paid apps, which values the market at $200 million/month. A recent Morgan Stanley report (http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobileinternetreport122009.html) explained that iPhone & iPod Touch applications are growing 8X faster than the internet in 1994.
Chomp, Inc is an Apple Affiliate and aims to help users discover the long tail of apps that are not in the Top 25 slots on the App Store, boosting app downloads & sales for Apple. When an app is found, Chomp launches the App Store for instant download and purchase. As an affiliate Chomp takes a percentage of every app that is purchased from the app store that originated as a referral from Chomp.
Chomp, Inc is a startup company based in San Francisco, CA. The company was co-founded by Ben Keighran (CEO) & Cathy Edwards (CTO) in 2009 and was officially announced on Wednesday January 6, 2010. Ben Keighran was previously the CEO & founder of Bluepulse, the most downloaded mobile application ever in 2006. Cathy Edwards was previously at Friendster, 3jam and Telstra and has a machine learning background. The two have spent their lives delighting millions of mobile users at their respective former companies & joined forces in mid 2009 to try and come up with a solution for app discovery.
