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UrbanSitter is a San Francisco-based online service and mobile app that allows parents to search for, book, pay, review, and recommend babysitters and nannies. UrbanSitter integrates with Facebook Connect and an internal database, allowing parents to view babysitters hired and reviewed by their Facebook friends and parents from children's schools, sports teams, and local parenting organizations. The company's online booking technology lets parents search for babysitters by specific time and date and schedule a booking. Alternatively, parents can post a job to a virtual job board. To date the company has raised a total of $22.75 million in venture funding.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Need a Babysitter in a Pinch? There's an App for That )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter, other sites help parents find caregivers for their kids )〕〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=10 top tech gadgets and apps for frazzled parents )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter app gives birth to new child care idea )〕 ==History== UrbanSitter's founders conceived of the idea for the service in order to create an easier, faster, more personal way to book childcare.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter lets parents out to play )〕 CEO, Lynn Perkins remarked in a GigaOM article that "I just thought it was kind of ridiculous that you could go to OpenTable and book a restaurant, but when you actually go to find a sitter, it would take you hours and days." Perkins and three co-founders launched UrbanSitter in 2010 with services in the San Francisco Bay Area.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter CEO talks about busiest day of the year )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What's in Your Bag? With Lynn Perkins )〕 The company raised a total a $7.75 million in seed and Series A funding between 2011 and 2012.〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Babysitting 2.0: credit-card payments and online bookings )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter matches parents with caregivers online )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter's Social Babysitting Service Granted $1.75 Million in Allowance )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Navigating Babysitting Websites )〕 Since founding, the service has grown to 12 cities throughout the United States, including, among others, San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle.〔〔〔 UrbanSitter has approximately 170,000 babysitting jobs〔 and a user base of 70,000 parents and 30,000 sitters as of February 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter Raises $15M To Harness The Power Of Social Recommendations In Child Care )〕〔〔 Forbes reported that UrbanSitter saw an "increase in clients and bookings of between 20% and 30% per month" throughout 2012 and 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UrbanSitter Looks To Spread To Atlanta And Austin )〕 In December 2013 the company announced that former Pandora executive Jessica Steel would become UrbanSitter's new President.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Date night? UrbanSitter's mom CEO has your friend-approved babysitters )〕 In February 2014 UrbanSitter raised a $15 million Series B funding round.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baby-Sitting Marketplace UrbanSitter Raises $15 Million )〕 The investment was led by DBL Investors and included participation from Match Group, a division of IAC, Aspect Ventures, Canaan Partners, First Round Capital, Menlo Ventures, and Rustic Canyon Partners.〔 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「UrbanSitter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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