Urbanspoon
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Urbanspoon is a restaurant information and recommendation service.

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founded date

01.10.2006

Operating Status

Closed (07.06.2015)

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

IPO status

Private

Description

Urbanspoon, now part of Zomato, operates in several countries and offers a mobile application that allows users to find restaurants and filter searches by neighborhood, type of food, special features, price, and nearby locations such as movie theaters and sports venues. The platform aggregates reviews from professional food critics, bloggers, and diners, making it a leading online local restaurant guide. Urbanspoon is an operating business of IAC and is available on the web and through its popular iPhone, Android, Windows, and iPad applications.
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M&A Details
1

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Acquired by

Zomato

announced date

12.01.2015

price

$55M

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Founders
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Ethan Lowry
Ethan Lowry

Ethan Lowry

Ethan Lowry is co-founder of the award-winning restaurant guide Urbanspoon, where he is responsible for the user experience of both the web site and the popular iPhone application. Prior to Urbanspoon Ethan helped start a number successful web companies. Most recently he was the VP of Product for Jobster, a recruiting site. Before that he led the design team at the mobile start-up Avogadro which was later acquired by mobile-web pioneer Openwave. He also helped start Drugstore.com. Ethan has a bachelor’s degree in Product Design from Stanford University.

current job

Hack Things
Hack Things

count Of Investments

2

Ethan Lowry

Patrick O'Donnell
Patrick O'Donnell

Patrick O'Donnell

Patrick O'Donnell is a Co-founder at Spare5.He is founder of Urbanspoon. He holds Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz.

current job

Fresh Chalk
Fresh Chalk

count Of Investments

2

Patrick O'Donnell

Adam Doppelt
Adam Doppelt

Adam Doppelt

Entrepreneuer/hacker/investor.

current job

Fresh Chalk
Fresh Chalk

count Of Investments

9

count Of Exists

4

Adam Doppelt

Employee Profiles
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Kara Nortman

Kara Nortman

GM

Conrad Saam

Conrad Saam

Director of Marketing

Ethan Lowry

Ethan Lowry

Co-Founder

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