zipLocal closes $6 million funding

By Heri Aug 8th 2007 in Business

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ZipLocal, a Toronto-based company but with the development team in Montreal, has raised $6.08 m from private placements. ZipLocal’s earlier investor is JLA ventures.

ZipLocal is a local business directory, and is the 2nd biggest player in Canada, just after the Yellow pages group. Ziplocal maintains a database of more than 1 million Canadian businesses, with about 1 million visitors per month.

As an aside, the Montreal web dev team is currently developing a new version of ZipLocal. I don’t have exact information on what the new planned features but I know it will be better than what Yellow Pages is offering.

Public announcement: if you work for Ziplocal, I am asking for an API so that third-party services could reuse and enrich the data.

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Comments

Will Pate August 09, 2007

Hey Gary, I can’t give away all the fun features yet – but I can tell you that we’re redoing the entire website in Ruby on Rails (thanks to Hampton at Unspace) and it’s getting a user experience refreshing (thanks to Tony and Rich at Arktyp).

I’ll pass on the request for an API :)

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jackoff August 11, 2007

ziplocal is the worst organization ever.

many many ex employees have major issues with this company.

they are unprofessional, immature, and totally in a world of their own.

meanwhile at least one of their sales reps got her start telemarketing the scam that ripped off over 30million dollars from welfare recipients and people who just could not afford the loss.

she is very very good folks. she can lie through her teeth.

if she will lie to sell credit cards with instant limits (not at all true) what else will she lie about.

read more go to google and type in Leslie Pinsky.

one day it will catch up to her and for ziplocal well

you definitely are in need of some mature management.

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Heri August 11, 2007

will pate: gary didn’t write the post, I did. I got the tip from him. Thanks for the additional info though.

anonymous: ok i understand you were an ex-employee or an ex-customer but the blog has no relationship with zipLocal. also, I searched about the Ms. Pinky you mentionned but couldn’t find anything. you should leave a more detailed post about what happenned with you.

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rotten teeth lies stink August 17, 2007

the most rotten staff in the world. lies, cheats, anything to keep ahead of others. I would never trust this company or their staff
Liars. Lie through their teeth, their rotten teeth.

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Heri August 17, 2007

there is no point insulting people like this on the Internet. one more comment with the same tone and I will ban your IP address.

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rest my case August 21, 2007

Leslie Pinsky and Stephen Clarke. Both ran the HOT boiler rooms of the HUGE scam out of Montreal to bilk Americans (mostly welfare recipients and single mothers) out of 299.00 to 350.00 in bogus credit cards.

Leslie Pinsky is a Male. Type the name into Google you will read the entire story.

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Sean Grate January 24, 2011

I do not imagine I have ever found a new site using this many reviews on there!

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