Loku - AngelList

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Loku makes it fun to get out and explore your city.

People go to Loku for 4 reasons:
1) Our tech recommends cool local experiences, (restaurants, concerts, happy hours, hikes, more) all customized just for you.
2) Our beautiful UI/UX.
3) We tastematch you + a friend, suggesting things you both love.
4) We recognize/reward you for being active locally.

Try it yourself!
M.LOKU.COM/PREVIEW
(ex zips: 10019, 94110, 78702)

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Roger Castillo

Founder/CTO AlterPoint (sold to Versata) additional startup experience includes KD1 (sold to Net Perceptions) and Spyglass (sold to OpenTV).
Raj Ramanan

Executive at KKR. Consultant at McKinsey & Co. Experienced in finance and operations.
Dan Street

CEO of Loku. 1 of 7 Execs at KKR Ops, tech/media practice. Bain & Co, promoted directly to post-MBA. Primedia. Dell. Rice University.

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Dave McClure

Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Paul Singh

Partner at 500 Startups
500 Startups

Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Rick Timmins

Rick brings with him 35 years of experience in financial management and strategic guidance from two Fortune 100 technology leaders.
Tom West

Digital CEO with expereince running multiple top 100 internet retailer sites. Advisor/Investor in Brighttag, Martini Media, Future Simple, Kele & MedSpeed

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Paul Singh

Partner at 500 Startups
Martin Gedalin

Later stage VC Investor at Lumia Capital. Previously, Focus Ventures, Product Management/Corporate Strategy, Oracle. MBA, Wharton.
Nathan Marz

Lead Engineer at Backtype (acquired by Twitter). Creator of Storm and Cascalog open source projects, which are relied upon by dozens of companies.
Rick Timmins

Rick brings with him 35 years of experience in financial management and strategic guidance from two Fortune 100 technology leaders.
Henrik Johansson

Entrepreneur / Start-up Chief Exec. Founder and President of Boundless Network, a $50MM tech-enabled services company in the promotional products market.
Jason Baldridge

Assoc. Prof., Computational Linguistics, UT Austin. Senior Data Scientist, Converseon. OpenNLP developer. Scala, Java, R, and Python programmer.

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Ralston Clarke

Product Manager at Loku. Research background in Planning and Visualization for Autonomous Vehicles (UT CS, ART). Turing Scholar & Dean's Scholar at UT Austin.
Brian Humphrey

Big Data Engineer
Eric Sung

Co-Founder of Loku. Focus on marketing and biz dev. Wrote undergrad thesis on future of hyperlocal media. First person in nation to get perfect 2400 on new SAT.

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Mo Yehia

Co-founder & Hustler at Sqoot (funded by DreamIt Ventures & 500 Startups). Banker turned human. UMICH BBA.
Patrick Ramsey

VP with Amex's digital commerce platform. Unique combination of product, operations, marketing & bus dev expertise in both start-ups & Fortune 500's

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Joshua Baer

Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.

“Mobile growth is up 180% month-over-month. We're beyond excited by users' reactions to and feedback on what we've built!”

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Tom West Finally someone has figured out how to combine the power of big data with local discovery. Well done Loku, you have earned your hockey stick!

25 days ago

Henrik Johansson I have been an adviser since the early days, prior to any funding. Dan has assembled a great team and have a great business model and great technology.

22 days ago

Patrick Ramsey I'm an active user & fan of Loku. Love the local discovery, with new (and most importantly) relevant curated content. Exciting to see this coming together!

9 days ago · Raj Ramanan likes this

Martin Gedalin Fantastic team, unique and valuable technology, huge market and consumer pain point

8 days ago · Raj Ramanan likes this

Paul Singh I love these guys -- fantastic team, great execution and solid understanding of the problem space. I invested in them in their previous round and I'm excited to be stepping up our participation in this latest round. Loku FTW!

7 days ago · Raj Ramanan likes this