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Strands Labs, Inc. is a startup company
Startup company
A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets...

, founded in early 2004 by Dr. Francisco Martin and Dr. Marc Torrens. Strands is headquartered in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, U.S. and currently operates further offices in Corvallis
Corvallis
-Education:* Corvallis High School * Corvallis High School * Corvallis High School -Others:* Cessna 400 Corvalis light aircraft* Corvallis Gazette-Times* Corvallis Knights, baseball team* Corvallis Municipal Airport...

, Oregon
Oregon
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, USA. and Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Spain
Spain
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.

Products and services

Strands Labs powers online personalization by providing solutions within the financial, recommendation and fitness industries. The company is divided into the following business units:
  • Strands Recommender
    Strands Recommender
    Strands Recommender is an SaaS plug-and-play recommendation engine that can be installed by eCommerce and content websites. The company is an independent business unit of Strands, Inc, founded in early 2004....

     is an SaaS plug-and-play recommendation engine that can be installed by eCommerce
    Electronic commerce
    Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...

     and content websites to generate Amazon-like recommendations.

  • Strands Finance offers white label personal finance
    Personal finance
    Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an individual or family unit. It addresses the ways in which individuals or families obtain, budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future...

     management solutions to international bank
    Bank
    A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...

    s.

  • moneyStrands is an award winning money management
    Money management
    Money management is the process of managing money which includes investment, budgeting, banking and taxes. It is also called investment management....

     solution allowing users to aggregate their online financial information with the overall goal to help them save money.

  • Strands Fitness is a free digital training log with analyzing capabilities for athletes like runners
    Running
    Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...

    , cyclists
    Cycling
    Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

    , triathletes
    Triathlon
    A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...

    , and other active people.

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