Pixel Labs

Pixel Labs (pixellabs.io) is a location-based news and information discovery platform.

Pixel Labs (pixellabs.io) is a location-based content discovery platform. We're solving local news and information discovery down to a 0.2 mile radius. Our vision is to allow locals to discover the pulse of their city, and for travelers to experience a city like locals do. We launched in March 2016, and acquired San Francisco neighborhood news start-up Hoodline.com in September 2016. Hoodline (now merged with Ripple News) is our direct to consumer brand, reaching half of the San Francisco city wide readership with our original content. In 2017, we’re taking what we learned in SF, global. We’re backed by Rakuten, Greylock Partners, Social Capital, Graph Ventures, CRV, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Pear Ventures, Matter Ventures, John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, 500 Startups, and SoftTech VC. Angel investors include Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, Blake Krikorian, Magdalena Yesil, Cyan and Scott Banister, Ben Silbermann of Pinterest and Shane Smith of VICE. Team of 17 based in San Francisco. We’re building the ‘nearby button’ of the internet and going all out :-) Join us!!