By Scott Meacham Recently, I received a phone call about a friend who was raising a fund specifically to invest in women-led companies. Considering the track record of venture capital invested in women-led firms, it’s easy to understand her focus. In the United States, about 2.5 to 3 percent of all venture funding goes toRead more
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By Paula Burkes Copyright ©2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Oklahoma City veteran restaurateur Heather Paul said she’s amazed lenders accepted her business plan when she and her husband, Keith Paul, opened Cheever’s Café 18 years ago. In reviewing her budget line items, one banker noticed there was no mention of linens, Paul said. “Don’t youRead more
Copyright © 2017 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. It’s been almost a year since WeGoLook, the world’s first gig economy platform for enterprise customers, sold an 85 percent interest to Crawford & Company, for more than $36 million. Today, with over 130 employees and 30,000 independent contractors (Lookers) dedicated to operations, WeGoLook operates as an independentRead more
Due to significant job losses in its manufacturing sector, Oklahoma City needed a strategy to diversify and boost its economy. To move the city forward and create more opportunities for innovation and technology-based businesses, EDA partnered with local nonprofit, i2E, Inc., to support their “Oklahoma City Technology Business Initiative.” The initiative allowed i2E toRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. As 2016 draws to a close, entrepreneurs and early stage investors in Oklahoma are ending the year with big smiles. In the past few weeks, the exits of Selexys and WeGoLook have been strong validations that in this state we do have the talent, capitalRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Now that the acquisition announcements of Selexys by Novartis and of WeGoLook by Crawford & Co. have been made, I’m looking forward to what happens next. In the case of Selexys, like any biotech deal, seeing the “next” will take some time. But with WeGoLook,Read more
CRAWFORD & COMPANY® ACQUIRES MAJORITY INTEREST IN WEGOLOOK®, LLC Acquisition gives Crawford® the potential to transform the insurance industry Oklahoma City, Okla. – December 8, 2016 – WeGoLook® today announced that Crawford & Company® (NYSE: CRD-A and CRD-B), one of the world’s largest independent providers of claims management solutions to the risk management and insuranceRead more
CRAWFORD & COMPANY® ACQUIRES MAJORITY INTEREST IN WEGOLOOK®, LLC Atlanta, GA – December 6, 2016 – Crawford & Company® (www.crawfordandcompany.com) (NYSE: CRD-A and CRD-B), one of the world’s largest independent providers of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities, today announced the acquisition of a majority interest in WeGoLook®, LLC (WGL(TM) or WeGoLook),Read more
It’s exciting when a young Oklahoma company signs up Fortune 500 companies as customers — Hyundai Motor Co., Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, eBay Motors and JPMorgan Chase. It’s even more exciting when that young Oklahoma company is at the leading edge of a monumental shift in the way the world works. That’s the story of WeGoLook, a company that started in 2009 and in June hired its 100th employee.
This year’s group of honorees for The Journal Record’s Innovator of the Year program demonstrates that Oklahoma’s pioneering spirit is still alive and well. The companies, representing a variety of industries, will be recognized during the Innovator of the Year luncheon Aug. 11 in Oklahoma City.
After a year of rapid growth, desks have been crammed into nearly every usable corner of the startup company WeGoLook’s downtown Oklahoma City office. The company, which specializes in on-site inspections and other field services, just hired its 100th employee and plans to hire about 30 more in the next 12 months.
A fast-growing Oklahoma City startup named WeGoLook has established itself as a pioneering crowd-sourcing business trailblazer, creating a market where there literally wasn’t one before.
An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City Voices from the Startup Community in Innovation Magazine Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America WeGoLook.com co-founder and CEO Robin Smith: “There are startup ‘hotbeds’ and innovation hubs all around the country that have been coined as such for a variety of reasons. But in many of these places itRead more
Robin Smith helped found WeGoLook after a conversation with a friend who saw something he wanted on eBay back in 2009. They started with individual business customers buying heavy equipment and other expensive stuff. Now, WeGoLook has more than 20,000 Lookers around the world.
i2E Inc. recently closed on a $249,000 follow-on investment in WeGoLook LLC.
i2E participates in $1.5 million financing round in WeGoLook with $249,000 follow-on investment Oklahoma City-based WeGoLook provides crowdsourced field inspection and verification services for individual and enterprise clients by dispatching an on-demand network of more than 20,000 “Lookers” to capture key information about assets or perform custom tasks via its web and mobile platform. Contact:Read more
WeGoLook won the overall award at The Journal Record’s Innovator of the Year event Wednesday.
WeGoLook provides affordable on-site verification and inspection services and custom tasking to individuals and businesses. With almost 18,000 agents worldwide — it’s the crowdsourcing model on steroids.
A few years ago, Robin Smith and her husband called on eBay in San Jose, Calif. to tell executives about their Oklahoma City-based startup WeGoLook.com.
Check out i2E’s first Outloud Podcast with Robin Smith of WeGoLook
