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Open Garden

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Open Garden is a mobile broadband network made of peer-to-peer connections between devices like smartphones, laptops and tablets.

Open Garden bets on the density of these devices to recreate a network and provide any user with ubiquitous access to the internet in mobility situations. The benefits are a faster internet access, a stronger coverage and also free mobile broadband.
Mobile operators can optimize their network infrastructure without any investment in hardware.

Open Garden started with a test application on Android that turns your phone into a hotspot and gathered more than 1 million users. These users accounted for 0.03% of mobile broadband traffic in North America in 2011.

Open Garden has released a prototype in private beta of the peer-to-peer mesh application in february 2012, that will go public in may.

The size of our addressable market is $6 billion. Revenues will be generated through premium features and advertising.

Recent Milestones

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  Open Garden received $2M in Seed funding. (9/12/12)
  Posted 9/12/12 at 6:46pm via techcrunch.com
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  Open Garden added Stanislav Shalunov as CTO. (2/1/11)
  Posted 5/2/12 at 5:38pm
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  Open Garden added Micha Benoliel as Co-Founder & CEO. (2/1/11)
  Posted 10/28/11 at 10:40pm
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  Open Garden added Greg Hazel as Co-founder. (1/1/11)
  Posted 5/2/12 at 5:15pm

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1. Open Garden, A TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalist, Raises $2M Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]