Geomoby is a Geolocation As A Service(GAAS) platform aimed at digital agencies and developers that makes it easy to add location and context awareness to any application.
After touring Australia on a visit and not knowing where to find a toilet, French entrepreneur Christophe Baudia built Aussie Loo, which became quite popular and inspired Christophe to explore the concept further.
Using your location and a list of known coordinates of landmarks and other points of interest Christophe was able to build other apps. By analysing the common problems and solutions in the geolocation space, and keeping tabs on the latest technologies GeoMoby was born.
Attending a Founder Institute course in 2013 proved to be invaluable training and forced Christophe to assess his and GeoMoby’s strengths and weaknesses.
A Gumtree ad for a co-founder led to Zac Durber joining Chris on the team and when I met with them they seemed tired but excited. One of the reasons could have been that Zac was about to go offline on a well deserved overseas family holiday.
In their time together, they have implemented a developer API and partnered with Buzztouch – a US based open source “app engine” that powers tens of thousands of iPhone, iPad and Android applications.
Still bootstrapping the business, but with some revenue starting to trickle in, Christophe says that further investment would be welcomed to take their plans forward. They have been working with Pattersons Securities to get all their paperwork in order and expect to pitching for investment in the near future.
This is one startup with a lot of potential, backed by a pair of co-founders with passion and expertise to match, watch this geolocated space as these guys go places.
Also, watch the full video interview below, they cover a lot of ground in there, they make some very interesting observations, and bare all about startups, home, iBeacons, kids, cooking, GPS, money and long nights.
Visit GeoMoby.com to download the API or learn more about the service.
