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Thanks for the info, submitting a suggested edit for the company page I work for

On March 7, 2016, Swipely became Upserve Upserve is a SAaS restaurant-management company based in Providence, RI. Restaurateurs use the cloud-based tool’s artificial intelligence to examine customer trends, online reviews and even how many people a restaurant can expect to walk in the door each night. The online software works with point-of-sale systems and terminals, reservations networks to interact with customer spending, social media, and other data.] In 2013, Forbes magazine included Swipely in its list of the top 100 “America’s Most Promising Companies.”[3] Swipely’s CEO, Angus Davis, was named to Forbes list of “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35.”[4] Contents

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1History and Services 2Financials and Growth 3References 4External links History and Services[edit] Swipely was founded in 2009 by Angus Davis, the co-founder of Tellme Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007.[5][6][7] Swipely was formerly a social network in which members shared their purchases with friends.[8][9][10] After its launch, Swipely was often compared to another social shopping website called Blippy.[11][12] Swipely officially launched on May 11, 2010 as an invite-only, social shopping service that allowed users to share information about their purchases.[13] In February 2011, Swipely evolved into a loyalty platform for local merchants to reward repeat customers. The loyalty service began in Rhode Island and expanded to Boston in December 2011 with 150 participating local merchants.[14] In April 2012, the “Main Street Marketing Manager” loyalty platform for small businesses launched nationally with an update that included customer-specific communications such as “thank you” messages and targeted offers.[15] As of December 2012, Swipely expanded its loyalty service to become an all-in-one payments, analytics, and marketing solution for local merchants.[16] Swipely’s loyalty service works with a merchant’s current credit card point-of-sales system with no additional cost.[17] The “Winter 2013” release added new features such as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool to keep track of customers, Swipely Heat Map to monitor a merchant’s hourly sales performance, and a partnership with American Express that provides next-day funding on American Express transactions.[16][18] The Winter 2013 upgrade also tied into social media, and illustrates to merchants how weather, Facebook posts, and other factors impact their customers’ buying patterns.[19]

Financials and Growth[edit] The Providence start-up[20] was the first Rhode Island-based software company to raise $7.5 million in Series A venture capital.[21] In all, Swipely raised $8.5 million in funds.[22] Founder and CEO Angus Davis sits on Swipely's board of directors along with Danny Rimer, partner at Index Ventures, and Josh Kopelman, partner at First Round Capital.[22] Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock and co-founder and executive chairman at LinkedIn, is a board observer.[23] Additional investors include Lowercase Capital led by Chris Sacca, and angel investor Ron Conway.[22][24] In December 2012, the monthly sales transactions processed through Swipely’s system exceeded $12 million, an increase from $4 million a month in September 2012.[1][25] Approximately $250 million in sales were processed on the Swipely platform during that same period, and merchants used the platform to review data on 500,000 customers.[16][26] As of February 2013, Swipely has more than $400 million in sales under management, with data on more than 875,000 consumers for several hundred merchant-clients.[27] In the fourth quarter of 2015, Upserve managed 11 million meals per month, up 172% since the year ago period. Upserve Guest Book is used to manage relationships with 37 million active diners, making Upserve one of the largest­-scale and fastest­-growing companies in the food and restaurant technology space

Swipely was named one of Forbes magazine’s “America’s Most Promising Companies” in 2013.[3] The company is the first Rhode Island-based firm on this Forbes list.[28] CEO Davis has also been included on the Forbes list of “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35.”[4] References[edit]

Preinselcotter (talk) 13:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC) Pamela Cotter, senior manager communications & public relations at Upserve

Providence's data company Swipely now Upserve, reflecting focus on restaurateurs http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160307/providences-data-company-swipely-now-upserve-reflecting-focus-on-restaurateurs

prnewswire release: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/swipely-is-now-upserve-300231064.html