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Andrew Weinreich
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Fordham University

Andrew Weinreich (/ˈwaɪnrɪtʃ/ WYNE-ritch) is an American businessman.

Early life and education

Weinreich graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He also holds a J.D. from Fordham University.[citation needed]

Career

After graduating from law school, Weinreich practiced law as General Counsel and served as Vice President for the Hertz Technology Group. He had also worked as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co.[1]

Weinreich has served as Chairman of Xtify, Founder and Chairman of MeetMoi LLC, Director of AskIt Systems, Director of Drop.io, Inc., Chairman of Board of Organic Network Inc., and Director of Organic Network Inc.[1] He has also served as Member of Advisory Board at Visible Path Corporation[1] and at SNAP Interactive, Inc. since September 2012.[2]

In 1997, Weinreich launched SixDegrees.[3]

In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots.[4] Joltage was forced to shut down in 2003 when the company ran out of funding.[5]

I Stand For

In 2003, Weinreich started I Stand For, Inc., a technology solution to transfer political fundraising online with content management and community solutions.[6] He said about the venture: "My vision five years ago was to revolutionize social networking (...) Now, it’s to revolutionize building member and constituent bases for political campaigns, not-for-profit organizations and other member-based businesses.”[7] He sold the company in February 2006.[8]

MeetMoi

In February 2006, Weinreich co-founded MeetMoi with Jeremy Levy. MeetMoi offers “the first location-based mobile dating service,”[9] combining Xtify's persistent location discovery and push notification technology.[10][8] The site currently has over 3 million users.[10] When asked about MeetMoi's push-notification based platform, Weinreich responded, “There is intelligence in the cloud and it should follow you wherever you want to be followed.”[11]

Xtify

In 2008, Weinreich and Jeremy Levy spun off the persistent tracking technologies of MeetMoi into a separate company called Xtify. Xtify was "the first geo-notification API that powers 'persistent location,' allowing a user’s location to be extracted from a mobile device on a periodic and continuous basis."[8] Xtify was acquired by IBM on October 3, 2013.[12]

The ‘Location-based services platform' patent,[13] invented by Weinreich et al., is a platform providing location-based services and location data to third-party service providers, currently utilized by Xtify.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference BusinesweekProfile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "SNAP Interactive Appoints Jerry King and Andrew Weinreich to Advisory Board". Citybizlist. Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  3. ^ Goble, Gordon (2012-09-06). "The History of Social Networking".
  4. ^ Metz, Cade (April 8, 2002). "Would You Like Wireless Access with That?". PC Magazine.
  5. ^ Shim, Richard (28 February 2003). "Start-up Joltage unplugs Wi-Fi service".
  6. ^ "Andrew Weinreich". TEDx Wall Street.
  7. ^ "Weinreich Launches Political ASP". theWHIR.com.
  8. ^ a b c Boyd Myers, Courtney (July 11, 2011). "Where are they now? New York City's Dot Com Entrepreneurs".
  9. ^ Maykowski, Alexander (2013-09-26). "25 New York Internet Pioneers – Then and Now". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  10. ^ a b Smith, Kevin (24 October 2012). "Check Out MeetMoi, The Dating App That Has Quietly Reached 3 Million Users". Business Insider.
  11. ^ Tsotsis, Alexia (3 August 2010). "Push Notifications Meet Dating: meetMoi NOW Alerts You When Matches Are Nearby".
  12. ^ Jackson, Joab (3 October 2013). "IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify". Computerworld.
  13. ^ US patent US8447332, Andrew P. Weinreich, "Location-based services platform", published 2013-05-21, issued 2001-01-16 
  14. ^ "Patent Issued for Location-Based Services Platform". Telecommunications Weekly. 5 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  15. ^ "U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York". 23 May 2013.
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