LocalBlox

LocalBlox is a location-based social network that builds scalable neighborhood platforms, aggregating business profiles with metadata.

LocalBlox is a technology company that builds highly scalable neighborhood platforms, aggregating 27M+ business profiles with rich meta data, millions of active events, crime incidents, neighbor profiles and news from thousands of sources - all updated and augmented real-time and mapped into 112K neighborhoods. LocalBlox provides businesses with the tools to create and syndicate events and rich profiles at their local stores through a disruptive mobile platform driven by its big data engine. LocalBlox is built on the idea that platform technologies, tools, and crowds can have a direct, positive impact on where people live and work. The company was co-founded by CEO, Sabira Arefin, and CTO, Ashfaq Rahman. Ms. Arefin, who holds an MBA from Duke University, is a leading entrepreneur with recognized successes in strategic planning and business development for high-growth start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. Ashfaq is a serial entrepreneur technologist; Founded revolutionary technology platforms for companies ranging from startups to multi billion dollar companies. An engineer from Microsoft in Redmond; played the chief scientist and founding technologist roles in a number of successful companies masterminding key inventions. Holds many software patents. He attended graduate school in computer science at UPenn (University of Pennsylvania).