About LightPole

LightPole, Inc. is a software and services company offering carrier-grade server infrastructure and applications that enable publishers to distribute geo-specific content to mobile devices.

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular as personal tools for social networking, calendaring, and location-based services. In the next 5-10 years, mobile phones will supplant PCs as the primary interface to the Web, particularly in applications that increasingly bring the online world into sync with our offline reality.

LightPole’s mission is to bring the world of geo-contextual content to the growing population—now counted in hundreds of millions—of mobile phone users. LightPole publishing services make it easy for publishers, bloggers, and other content providers to distribute content to mobile device users, and to engage those users in interactive communities. No special programming or expensive IT investments are required. LightPole enables publishers to easily extend the publishing systems they already have to reach new markets and build new communities.

The LightPole publishing service supports a variety of content distribution models, including subscriptions, transactions, and advertising. The company offers “location-aware discovery” of content, giving mobile devices users unprecedented access to a wealth of information about where they are.

LightPole was founded in January 2007. The company has corporate headquarters in San Francisco and a development center in China.