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Gogobot is a local discovery and travel research application and website headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Gogobot users can research destinations and places to go, including hotels, restaurants, bars and attractions in more than 60,000 destinations, and its users can share reviews and pictures from their own travel experiences.〔 ''Forbes'' has referred to the company as a "social network for travelers." Founded in 2010, Gogobot is the fifth most visited travel-planning site in the United States.〔 It has been ranked among the top 50 websites by ''Time'' and TheGuardian.com ranked it as one of the best Android applications of 2013. The company received a TechCrunch Crunchie award in 2010 for best design.〔 ==Company history== Gogobot was founded in 2010 by Ori Zaltzman and Travis Katz.〔 Prior to founding Gogobot, Travis Katz was the senior vice president and managing director for MySpace International, and Ori Zaltzman was the lead architect for Yahoo! BOSS and lead technologist at Yahoo! Answers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Meet Gogobot's Team )〕 Katz came up with the idea for Gogobot while working at MySpace, citing a observation of how long it took to make travel plans while noting that online trip planning lacked "personal relevance."〔〔 The company secured $4 million in its first round of venture funding from Battery Ventures.〔 The website launched in November 2010 and Gogobot released the iOS application in October 2011. The same year the site was launched, Gogobot was awarded a Crunchie award for best design by TechCrunch. In 2011, Gogobot announced several system integration developments with companies including Flipboard, Facebook, and Foursquare that would allow users to connect to their friends and other users through aspects of other social media platforms.〔 In 2011, Gogobot was ranked among the top 50 websites by ''Time'' magazine.,〔〔 and in October, 2011, the company raised an additional $15 million in venture capital in a series B round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures.〔 By 2012, the Gogobot user-base had grown to over two million members within two months. After identifying that almost 44 percent of the site's users were coming from Europe, the company established a European headquarters in London in April 2012.〔 The Gogobot Android application was released in January 2013. Later that year, Gogobot announced their partnership with HomeAway, a vacation rental company. The partnership led to the launch of Gogobot's "Insider Guides," combining data and advice from HomeAway with Gogobot's editorial content and reviews.〔 The company became the fastest growing travel website in 2013 achieving 3.7 million users.〔 In 2014, Gogobot crossed 720,000 reviews, and 4 million pictures.〔 The company launched a redesigned mobile app in 2014 in response to users increasingly using the service for local discovery, rather than simply travel planning. The new site design also included a revamped company logo and a new "Tribes" feature that helps users filter places based on what is popular among people with similar interests such as foodies or adventure-seekers.〔 In November, 2014, Gogobot secured an additional $20MM in venture financing, led by HomeAway with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gogobot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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