LocationLabs

About

Location Labs is the leader in Location Based Services for mobile phone developers.

Our goals are simple. To help developers:

• Build better, richer more dynamic location applications
• Manage and protect users' privacy
• Make money using location

We do this as a Service. Think of us as Location-as-a-Service (LaaS). Our first three Service APIs are Geofencing, Universal Location Service, and Privacy Management.

Based on 50+years of cumulative R&D operating as WaveMarket Inc., our platform was architected and built by Dr. Scott Hotes and his team of algorithmically-potent PhDs.

Executive Team

Prior to founding Location Labs, Tasso was a Vice President at Claridge, a $3 billion fund operating wireless and media assets.

Tasso also worked at Bain & Company where, at age 23, was the interim COO of a $600M industrial company. He also led the first location-based service/tracking deployment in the 90's. He was the highest-ranked Associate in his Bain Class.

Tasso co-founded a medical device startup, Coroneo, with products now deployed in hospitals including Stanford. He was also an associate in the merchant banking group at Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette.

Tasso has an MBA from Harvard University. He holds a B.Sc. and a B.Comm. from McGill University with Joint Honors in Economics and Finance, where he ranked first in his class and graduated with Great Distinction. He is fluent in French and Greek and conversational in Italian.

A proud East Bay resident, he lives in Orinda with his wife, Patrizia Salvati, who works in Pastry at Chez Panisse, and their 2 children, Alessandra and Luca.

Scott is the biggest brain in our company –- he specializes in launching massively scalable software implementing advanced algorithms. Prior to Location Labs, he was a lead architect at Silicon Graphics, Inc. where he spearheaded numerous enhancements to the SGI Irix operating system.

Scott was also a lead architect at the United States Department of Defense, where he implemented data mining and machine learning algorithms in Internet security and traffic modeling applications.

He has published in a wide range of disciplines from discrete mathematics and elementary particle theory to analytical chemistry and geo-physics. He has also at worked at three Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the National Institute of Science and Technology and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Scott has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the University of California and lives in Berkeley with his wife, artist Marylin Hotes.

Before joining Location Labs, Joel led multiple teams at Microsoft Corporation working on both established businesses and initial product launches. Joel specialized initially on key design and usability improvements in Windows XP, after which he spearheaded a company-wide cross-product communication platform effort for Windows. Towards the end of his time at Microsoft, Joel was the Lead Program Manager for the initial launch of the Microsoft Smart Personal Object technology. Joel is an inventor of more than one dozen patents in mobile, communications, and user interface innovations.

Joel has an MBA with Distinction from Harvard University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brown University, where he was inducted into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and founded AEPi.

Joel lives in San Francisco with his wife Holly and their son Avi though, as a Boston native, he remains loyal to the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins.

Before joining Location Labs, Akash led Business Development and Sales at PlusMo, the leading mobile widgets company that was recently acquired by AT&T.

Prior to PlusMo, Akash founded and served as CEO of Green Note, a leading social networking based lending service for college students. The company was backed by Menlo Ventures and Glenbrook Partners prior to its acquisition by Cology, Inc.

In addition to his entrepreneurial experiences Akash has also held executive management roles at both Oracle and Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP for $4.6B).

Akash has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.

Akash lives in the San Francisco peninsula with his wife and kids.

Jason runs the Location Labs platform business where he covers the product management, marketing, and business development functions. He has 10+ years of entrepreneurial experience with mobile and web software as well as a stint in venture capital.

Before Location Labs, Jason was a Product Manager at Funambol where he led early efforts on the Funambol Mobile Sync Portal and launched multiple developer community programs. Prior to Funambol, he served in various product management, investment professional, and entrepreneurial roles at Vindigo, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Glocap Search.

Jason holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School where he chaired the Outrageous Business Plan Competition. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University where, before graduation, he started his first technology company focused on email archiving solutions.

Jason lives in the Marina district of San Francisco with his wife Marla and their son Ethan. As a Baltimore native, he loves lacrosse and Maryland blue crabs… not to mention NCAA basketball.

Investors

Location Labs has raised $26M from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners), QUALCOMM Ventures, Intel Capital, British Telecom and Mitsui Ventures.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the premier early stage venture capital firm. Founded in 1985, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has created a global network of affiliated venture funds with over $3 billion in capital commitments and offices in the major technology centers around the world. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm has proven expertise in identifying and helping extraordinary entrepreneurs who want to change the world.

Founded in 1998, BlueRun Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management focused on Internet, Mobile and Media opportunities. BlueRun works closely with entrepreneurs to build market-changing companies such as PayPal (EBAY), WiderThan (REAL) and Enpocket (NOK). With offices in Menlo Park, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Helsinki and Mumbai, BlueRun brings distributed insight to each market and opportunity to help young companies navigate dynamic markets.

QUALCOMM Ventures supports QUALCOMM's mission of enabling and fostering CDMA and wireless Internet markets through strategic investments in privately-owned startup ventures. These strategic investments include companies focusing on wireless communication technologies and products serving consumer, enterprise, and vertical markets worldwide.

Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, focuses on making equity investments and acquisitions to grow the Internet economy in support of Intel's strategic interests. Intel Capital invests in hardware, software and services companies in several market segments, including computing, networking, and wireless communications.