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Company Description

Uptake helps travelers create their ideal vacation by giving them recommendations from friends whove been there and the largest online travel library. Founded in 2008 by some of the most experienced online travel executives in the world, Uptake analyzes and organizes users travel histories, as well as travel information from more than 30,000 web sites, to help them get the most trusted, accurate and personalized recommendations and information from friends and people who know. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, Uptake has become the largest independent U.S. travel research site, helping more than 30 million travelers research and plan their ideal vacations in 2011.See about UpTake for more information about our company.

Press Releases

Forbes | November 9, 2011

• Uptake Brings Friend Recommendations To Travel Search

GigaOM | November 9, 2011

• Meet Uptake: The biggest travel site youve never heard of
• Syndicated to:CNN Money

Wall Street Journal | November 9, 2011

• Uptake Travel Research Site Adds Social Q&A

Tnooz | November 9, 2011

• Gogobot move over Uptake goes social with unstructured Facebook data

CNET | November 9, 2011

• Travel startup mines Facebook data for trip tips

CNET Australia | November 9, 2011

• Scripps To Offer Live Streaming To Mobile Devices

The Next Web | November 9, 2011

• Uptake helps you ask locals all of your travel questions

VentureBeat | November 9, 2011

• Need travel advice? Uptake connects you to Facebook friends who know best

Travel Musings | November 9, 2011

• Uptake.com Launches New Travel Q&A Feature

IBTraveler | November 10, 2011

• Uptake Q&A: Mining Facebook Data for Travel Tips

btSocial | November 10, 2011

• Travel suggestions from your friends

InMenlo | December 5, 2011

• Six questions for Uptake co-founder Yen Lee

The Telegraph | December 20, 2011

• Best travel advice online: expert help for specific queries

Contributed Articles

Forbes | September 27, 2011

• Can The Online Travel Sector Avoid A Slowdown?

The Huffington Post | December 11, 2011

• The Travel Paradox And Why Women Know Best

Other News

November 9, 2011

• Uptake Launches New Social Travel Q&A Service

February 14, 2011

• New Site Tells You How to Determine Your Shag Score (Shagability)

February 10, 2011

• UpTake Networks Expands Executive Team and Board

November 4, 2010

• UpTake Acquires Global, Social Hotel Recommendation Engine--RealTravel

March 17, 2010

• UpTake Launches "Travel Gems" Blog Program

March 24th, 2009

• UpTake Becomes Largest Travel & Hotel Review Metasearch Engine and Surpasses One Million Monthly Visitors

February 4th, 2009

• UpTake Launches Travel Blog Network To Provide Expert Opinions About Where To Go, What To Do and Where To Stay (traditional format)

September 17th, 2008

• UpTake Raises $10 Million to Expand Product Offering and Accelerate Growth

July 28th, 2008

• UpTake Helps Frugal Travelers Plan the Perfect Trip

May 14th, 2008

• UpTake Collects and Organizes Online Word-of-Mouth from Thousands of Travel Websites

March 26th, 2008

• Kango Announces Name Change to UpTake

December 18th, 2007

• Kango Announces Series A Funding & Private Beta Status

Press Contact

Megan Soto or Iz Conroy

LaunchSquad

uptake@launchsquad.com
(415) 625-8555