TradeYa Inc.

The Amazon of barter.

Venice, California, US

Tech Startup, Consumer Internet, Business to Business

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Traction

We released our Private Beta based on 6 months of R&D and added approx 10k users in 45 days.

December, 2013

On Jan 5 we released on Public Beta at Startup Debut in Las Vegas.

January, 2014

Between Jan 5 and April 1, TradeYa grew by more than 40k registered users.

April, 2014

V1 of our iOS app was available in the app store and was downloaded over 1100 times.

April, 2014

By March 15th there were 5000 items available for trade on TradeYa.

March, 2014

By April 1, there had been 8000 want clicks by users.

April, 2014

By April 1, 1274 trades had been started.

April, 2014

User growth continues to be strong at approx 20% growth month-over-month.

June, 2014

We released a b2b service connecting compatible businesses to exchange products and services and saw immediate results.

August, 2014

Leadership

Jared Krause

CEO, Chairman

Jared is a media and technology entrepreneur who founded and led Goodlife.com through successful launch of largest health/wellness directory and marketplace on the web. As an Internet monetization and Internet marketing expert, he has advised premier clients such as P&G, Universal, Offerpal Media, Vista Print, Petco. Prior to that, Jared was on the production team of an Academy-award nominated and Emmy winning documentary, and started a video production company which won 7 Telly awards in recognition of excellence in video production.

Aimee Lagos

Founder, Board

Award winning screenwriter and filmmaker whose writing and directing credits include films at Sony Pictures, Dreamworks SKG, Paramount, CBS, Dimension and Lionsgate. An entrepreneur and activist who believes that great ideas, well executed, can change the world.

Shantanu Bhardwaj

CTO, Board

Bob Vanech

Board

Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Former VC who likes starting things.

Dan Abrams

Founder, Board

Dan Abrams is an entrepreneur, independent film producer, and environmental advocate. A native New Yorker, and a graduate of Harvard and NYU's Tisch School, he now lives, works, and plays in Venice, CA.

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