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Strands

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Strands develops technologies to better understand people’s taste and help them discover things they like and didn’t know about. They have created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices.

Strands Inc. operates in three areas:

• Business Solutions: Strands Business Solutions helps people discover the content on your site.
• Personal Finance: moneyStrands is an online money management solution that allows users to aggregate their online financial information in one place. It provides users with personalized recommendations of financial products and services, helping them find new ways to save money and invest.
• Social Discovery: Strands is building services that enable users to discover new things, based on their online, offline and mobile activities. Strands.com helps people discover new things from people they care about.

Strands has raised a total of $55 million to date.

Milestones

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  Strands received $123k in Unattributed funding. (10/21/08)
  Posted 8/22/09 at 7:06am
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  Strands — Strands Call for Recommender Start-ups (9/23/08)
  Posted 9/23/08 at 1:34pm
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  Strands — Strands to power BBVA’s Personal Finance tool (7/18/08)
  Posted 7/18/08 at 10:13am
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  Strands acquired NetworthIQ. (5/15/08)
  Posted 5/15/08 at 12:53pm
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  Strands acquired expensr. (4/29/08)
  Posted 5/1/08 at 10:23am
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  Strands received $24M in Series B funding. (12/1/07)
  Posted 12/4/07 at 7:04am
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  Strands received $25M in Series B funding. (6/18/07)
  Posted 6/18/07 at 7:19pm
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  Strands received $6M in Series A funding. (3/1/06)
  Posted 6/18/07 at 7:17pm
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  Strands added Dr. Rick D. Hangartner as Chief Scientist.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:20am
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  Strands added Jim Shur as Chief Software Architect.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:21am
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  Strands added Noyda Matos as VP, Software Development.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:20am
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  Strands added Dr. Marc Torrens as Chief Innovation Officer.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:21am
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  Strands added Trevor Legwinski as Business Development Director.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:19am
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  Strands added Atakan Cetinsoy as General Manager - Personal Finance Products.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:18am
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  Strands added Dr. Francisco J Martin as Founder and CEO.
  Posted 6/17/07 at 12:18am
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  Strands added Jesus Pindado as Vice President, Business Solutions.
  Posted 5/2/08 at 7:07pm

Videos

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Above: Strands.com
Uploaded: 10/21/08

Products

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Sources

1. techcrunch.com [edit]
2. Oregon live blog (blog.oregonlive.com) [edit]
3. Citation Needed [add]
4. MyStrands raises $25 Million to lead the social recommendation industry - Strands blog (blog.strands.com) [edit]
5. MyStrands Raises $24 Million to lead the social recommendation industry - Strands press release (blog.strands.com) [edit]
6. Cap Funding Report [edit]
7. Strands to power BBVA’s Personal Finance tool for it’s 4.1 million online users and 1.3 billion online financial transactions (blog.strands.com) [edit]
8. Strands $100,000 Call for Recommender Startups (mystrands.com) [edit]