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Loopt: History, Companies & Art

Loopt, Inc. was an American company based in Mountain View, California, which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people. The company entered partnerships with major U.S. mobile phone carriers including Verizon Wireless and Sprint-Nextel to include Loopt on their handsets and the service reached 4…

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Loopt topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Loopt.

Related topics: 34
Source areas: 3
Connected nodes: 37
Extracted relationships: 37
Concept neighborhoods: 14
Bridge connections: 37

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 18 topics

Overview · 11 topics

SMS invitation issues · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded: 2005; 21 years ago (2005)
Founders: Sam Altman · Nick Sivo · Alok Deshpande
Industry: Geosocial networking, location-based services
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, US
Defunct: 2012 (2012)
Fate: Acquired by Green Dot Corporation

Suggested research paths

A focused starting point derived from the topic graph, ranked independently of the source article order.

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History

App Store Apple Black20 Boost Mobile CBS

SMS invitation issues

Address books Date of birth Mobile phone Privacy SMS

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Mountain View, California
Share their location Location-based service
Verizon Wireless Verizon (wireless service)
Sprint-Nextel
Facebook
Twitter
Y Combinator Y Combinator (company)
Sequoia Capital
New Enterprise Associates
TiVo
Green Dot Corporation

History

Sophomores Sophomore
Sam Altman
US$ United States dollar
Boost Mobile Boost Mobile (Australia)
Verizon Verizon Wireless
CBS
Location-based advertising
Worldwide Developers Conference
IPhone
Apple Apple Inc.
ITunes ITunes Store
App Store App Store (Apple)
Black20
Metromix
Citysearch
Zagat
Bing Microsoft Bing
Steve Boom

SMS invitation issues

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Loopt connects Entity context

The extracted context around Loopt shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Loopt → Alok Deshpande, Boost Mobile, Combinator, Initially, New Enterprise Associates, Nick Sivo, Radiate, Rick, Sam Altman, Sam's, September, Sequoia Capital, Series, Stanford, That, They, Tom Pernikoff, US, Where Another extracted example is Loopt → July, Loopt's, Short Message Service, SMS, STOP, Users, When Loopt. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Loopt

Top relations

related to history · 19

Loopt → Alok Deshpande, Boost Mobile, Combinator, Initially, New Enterprise Associates, Nick Sivo, Radiate, Rick, Sam Altman, Sam's, September, Sequoia Capital, Series, Stanford, That, They, Tom Pernikoff, US, Where

related to SMS invitation issues · 7

Loopt → July, Loopt's, Short Message Service, SMS, STOP, Users, When Loopt

Founders · 3

Loopt → Alok Deshpande, Nick Sivo, Sam Altman

Defunct · 1

Loopt → 2012 (2012)

Fate · 1

Loopt → Acquired by Green Dot Corporation

Founded · 1

Loopt → 2005; 21 years ago (2005)

Headquarters · 1

Loopt → Mountain View, California, US

Industry · 1

Loopt → Geosocial networking, location-based services

Key people · 1

Loopt → Sam Altman (CEO)

Type · 1

Loopt → Private

Important terminology

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Important terminology

2008 users 2010 iphone july march service million company mobile sequoia capital us acquired launched version funding series people 2012

Loopt relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 37 structured relationships around Loopt. Examples in this analysis include Loopt → Defunct → 2012 (2012) and Loopt → Fate → Acquired by Green Dot Corporation. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Loopt	Defunct	2012 (2012)	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Fate	Acquired by Green Dot Corporation	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Founded	2005; 21 years ago (2005)	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Founders	Sam Altman	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Founders	Nick Sivo	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Founders	Alok Deshpande	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Headquarters	Mountain View, California, US	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Industry	Geosocial networking, location-based services	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Key people	Sam Altman (CEO)	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Type	Private	1.00	infobox
Loopt	Website	loopt.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-12-16)	1.00	infobox
Loopt	related to history	Initially	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Loopt bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include July, Million and Service. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Loopt
- July
- Million
- Service
- Us
- Iphone
- Users
- Acquired
- Launched
- Mobile
- Version
- March
- Altman
loopt
- July
- Million
- Service
- Us
- Iphone
- Users
- Acquired
- Launched
- Mobile
- Version
- March
- Altman
mountain view, california
- California
- Mountain
- View
- People
- Founded
- Inc
- Altman
- Called
- Corporation
- Dot
- Green
- Location-based
sequoia capital
- Sequoia
- New
- Received
- Funding
- Series
- Million
- Us
- Founded
- Corporation
- Dot
- Green
- Acquired
green dot corporation
- Corporation
- Dot
- Green
- Million
- Us
- March
- Founded
- Mountain
- View
- Altman
- Called
- Location-based
sam altman
- California
- Founded
- Mountain
- View
- Called
- Corporation
- Dot
- Green
- June
- Location-based
- People
- Funding
boost mobile
- Phone
- Series
- Million
- Service
- Users
- Including
- Verizon
- New
- Received
- Capital
- Funding
- Sequoia
mobile phone
- Phone
- Series
- Million
- Service
- Users
- Verizon
- Including
- New
- Received
- Capital
- Funding
- Sequoia

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Loopt, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Loopt with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Loopt — History · splits 19 ⟂ 19

Loopt — Overview · splits 26 ⟂ 12

Loopt — SMS invitation issues · splits 32 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Loopt

Nodes38

Edges37

Triples37

Avg. degree1.95

Density0.052632

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Loopt to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Loopt · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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