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Websitestrands.com
Blogblog.strands.com
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Phone+ 1 541 753 4426
Email
Employees150
Founded10/03

Offices

Corvallis, USA
760 SW Madison, STE 106
Corvallis, OR, 97333
USA

People

Founder and CEO
General Manager - Personal Finance Products
Business Development Director
Chief Scientist
VP, Software Development
Chief Software Architect
Chief Innovation Officer
Vice President, Business Solutions
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Acquisitions

NetworthIQ, 5/08
expensr, 4/08

Funding

Total$55.1M
Series A, 3/06
Debaeque
Sequel Venture Partners
$6M
Series B, 6/07
Antonio Asensio
$25M
Series B, 12/07
BBVA
$24M
Unattributed, 10/08
JLA Ventures
$123k

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Strands

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

  • Wolfgang Bremer, Director of Design and User Experience added.
    Posted 6/19/09 at 8:32pm
  • Vibhor Jain, Product Manager (mobility) added.
    Posted 2/5/09 at 12:32pm
  • Fabien Cadaut, Director, EU Business Development, Strands Business Solutions added.
    Posted 1/28/09 at 5:05am
  • Received $123k in Unattributed funding. (10/21/08)
    Posted 8/22/09 at 7:06am
  • Strands — Strands Call for Recommender Start-ups (9/23/08)
    Posted 9/23/08 at 1:34pm
  • Strands — Strands to power BBVA’s Personal Finance tool (7/18/08)
    Posted 7/18/08 at 10:13am
  • Ryan Williams, Software Engineer added.
    Posted 6/20/08 at 2:14pm
  • R. Scott Doan, Vice President, Enterprise Sales added.
    Posted 5/26/08 at 11:51am
  • Oliver Bremer, Vice President, Product Management and Strategy added.
    Posted 5/26/08 at 11:51am
  • Philip Jenkins, Chief Security/Privacy Officer added.
    Posted 5/26/08 at 11:51am
  • Acquired NetworthIQ. (5/15/08)
    Posted 5/15/08 at 12:53pm
  • Jesus Pindado, Vice President, Business Solutions added.
    Posted 5/2/08 at 7:07pm
  • Acquired expensr. (4/29/08)
    Posted 5/1/08 at 10:23am
  • Received $24M in Series B funding. (12/1/07)
    Posted 12/4/07 at 7:04am
  • Received $25M in Series B funding. (6/18/07)
    Posted 6/18/07 at 7:19pm
  • Dr. Francisco J Martin, Founder and CEO added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:18am
  • Atakan Cetinsoy, General Manager - Personal Finance Products added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:18am
  • Trevor Legwinski, Business Development Director added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:19am
  • Dr. Rick D. Hangartner, Chief Scientist added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:20am
  • Dr. Marc Torrens, Chief Innovation Officer added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:21am
  • Jim Shur, Chief Software Architect added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:21am
  • Noyda Matos, VP, Software Development added.
    Posted 6/17/07 at 12:20am
  • Received $6M in Series A funding. (3/1/06)
    Posted 6/18/07 at 7:17pm

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

Products

MyStrands
MyStrands.tv
Strands
Strands Social Recommender
moneyStrands
musicStrandsTV

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Sources

  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. Oregon live blog (blog.oregonlive.com) [edit]
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  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]
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