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Fondu

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Fondu (formerly SpotOn) was a community for sharing bite-sized reviews about places to eat and drink.

Users wrote a short review of places they visited and gave it a rating of 1-4 “petals” that got pushed to their followers in the community.

After launching SpotOn as an NYC only beta at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May, the team spent a lot of time refining the recommendation engine and testing with users. Based on extensive user feedback, the team decided to evolve their product into a social network for bite-sized reviews and renamed the company to Fondu.

Fondu was acquired by [Airbnb] (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-buys-fondu-2012-10) in 2012

Recent Milestones

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  Fondu was acquired by Airbnb for $575k. (10/3/12)
  Posted 2/6/13 at 1:31pm via businessinsider.com
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  Fondu received $575k in Seed funding. (11/1/11)
  Posted 11/22/11 at 9:04am via techcrunch.com
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  Fondu added Mike Lewis as Co-founder, CTO. (2/1/11)
  Posted 3/29/11 at 9:45am
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  Fondu added Gauri Manglik as CEO & Co-founder. (5/1/10)
  Posted 3/31/11 at 9:51pm
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  Fondu added Orion Burt as Co-founder & Algorithm Lead. (2/1/10)
  Posted 3/30/11 at 2:40pm

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Sources

1. Airbnb May Be Getting Into Yelp's Territory With Its Latest Acquisition (businessinsider.com) [edit]
2. Fondu Is Foursquare For Foodies (techcrunch.com) [edit]