Strands develops technologies to better understand people's taste and help them discover things they like and didn't know about. Strands has created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices. Strands Inc. operates in three areas:

Personal Finance: Strands personal finance solution, moneyStrands, provides users with the best personalized recommendations of financial products and services, helping them find new ways to save money and invest.

Social Media: Strands is building services that enable users to discover new things, based on their online, offline and mobile activities. Some of these services include the discovery site Strands, the interactive party service partyStrands, and MyStrands which helps you discover new music both online and through your cellphone.

Business Solutions: Strands Business Solutions helps people discover the content in your site. Strands Recommender enables rating, tagging, and community features, and delivers targeted product and content recommendations based on dynamic profiles and streams of behavioral, semantic, and contextual data. Available as hosted SaaS offering.

Strands was initially launched in 2005 as MusicStarnds.
Strands is headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon, with R&D and sales facilities in Europe.

Strands, Inc.
760 SW Madison
Suite 106
Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
Tel + 1 541 753 4426
Fax + 1 541 754 6416

www.strands.com

Initial investment date: 2005
Stage at Date of initial investment: early stage