[3] uLocate spent its early days creating family tracking services as well as building location-based applications for companies such as MapQuest and Helio.

[4] WHERE provides hyper-local information and user generated content about weather, news, movies, restaurant and business reviews, cheap gas, coupons and offers, traffic, etc.

[5] Brands such as Starbucks, Yellow Pages and Zipcar use WHERE to reach local audiences by providing data for various features within WHERE.

Prior to its acquisition by eBay in 2011, several industry experts sat on its board including Craig Forman and Jim Bankoff, CEO of Vox Media.

The Start Tank is a business incubator hosted by PayPal, which offers free co-working space for early-stage startups.

[25] These are part of a broader growing trend of business incubators and seed accelerators sponsored by corporate entities and technology companies.

[31] The Start Tank gained greater visibility in the Boston area, and by time the third class moved in during March 2014, the program became more selective, accepting only 14 out of 80 applications.

[33] In summer 2014, the program partnered with The Ad Club to add events such as the Brand-a-thon[34][35][36][37][38][39] to engage with the startup ecosystem and expanded globally to London and Chennai.

[43] The Start Tank was founded by PayPal executive David Chang,[44] who was named to Boston Business Journal's annual Power 50 List of influential Bostonians[45] after its creation.