SimpleGeo Wins More than Praise at ‘Under the Radar’
The formidable combination of Matt Galligan (Founder, Socialthing!) and Joe Stump (Former Lead-Architect, Digg) came out on-top yesterday at ‘Under the Radar‘. The duo’s new company SimpleGeo won both the judges & audience awards for the location category at the event. ‘Under the Radar’ helps to give up-and-coming technology innovators a stage to show what they’ve been up to.
TechCrunch gave their insight on the company’s offerings:
SimpleGeo is akin to an ‘Amazon Web Services’ for location: developers looking to integrate location based services (LBS) can plug into some simple APIs and SimpleGeo will do most of the legwork for them. The startup originated as a gaming company, but after spending four months building out their location platform, Stump and Galligan realized they had stumbled across an opportunity: location is soon going to become an expected feature in many applications, and there’s no reason developers should have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to include the feature. SimpleGeo is looking to do it for them.
The team of Galligan and Stump stands to bring a level playing-field to many smaller developers. By utilizing their infrastructure, SDK, and services, developers who were previously too intimidated to get into location-based development now have an opportunity to see their ideas through.