Strands
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder(s) | Dr. Francisco Martin Dr. Marc Torrens |
| Headquarters | Corvallis, Oregon, U.S., San Francisco, California, U.S, Barcelona, Spain, Madrid, Spain |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Edward Chang (CEO) Jason Hendricks (CFO) Dr. Marc Torrens (CIO) Philip Jenkins (Chief Security/Privacy Officer) Jim Shur (Chief Software Architect) Jesus Pindado (Vice President, Strands Recommender) Mary Beth Altmann Hughes (People Operations Director) |
| Employees | 100 |
| Website | Strands.com |
| Available in | Multilingual |
Strands Labs, Inc. is a startup company, founded in early 2004 by Dr. Francisco Martin and Dr. Marc Torrens. Strands is headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. and currently operates further offices in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. and Barcelona, Madrid, Spain.
[edit] Products and services
Strands Labs powers online personalization by providing solutions within the financial, recommendation and fitness industries. The company is divided into the following business units:
- Strands Recommender is an SaaS plug-and-play recommendation engine that can be installed by eCommerce and content websites to generate Amazon-like recommendations. [3][4][5]
- Strands Finance offers white label personal finance management solutions to international banks.[3][6][7][8][9][10]
- moneyStrands is an award winning[11] money management solution allowing users to aggregate their online financial information with the overall goal to help them save money.[3][12][13]
- Strands Fitness is a free digital training log with analyzing capabilities for athletes like runners, cyclists, triathletes, and other active people.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Strands Company Profile", LinkedIn.
- ^ "Strands Company Profile", CrunchBase.
- ^ a b c d "Strands Overview", Strands.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason "Strands Introduces Amazon-like Recommendation Engine", TechCrunch, June 10, 2008.
- ^ "Strands Recommender Product Profile", CrunchBase.
- ^ Adams, John "White-Label PFM's BBVA's White Horse", Bank Technology News, December 2009.
- ^ Turoczy, Rick "Strands personal finance paying dividends, ING joins the roster", Silicon Florist, June 30, 2009.
- ^ "Strands Personal Finance Product Profile", LinkedIn.
- ^ "Strands Becoming a Leader in the Personal Finance Management Market", Strands Blog, June 30, 2009.
- ^ "Strands to power BBVA’s Personal Finance tool for its 4.1 million online users and 1.3 billion online financial transactions", Strands Blog, July 16, 2008.
- ^ "14th annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners", Webby Awards, 2010.
- ^ "moneyStrands Product Profile", LinkedIn.
- ^ "moneyStrands Product Profile", CrunchBase.
[edit] External links
- Official company website
- Official website of Strands' recommendation product Strands Recommender
- Official website of Strands' white label personal finance product Strands Personal Finance
- Official website of Strands' money management product moneyStrands
- Official website of Strands' social media product Strands.com
