Open Garden
| Private | |
| Industry |
Mobile applications Mesh networks Peer-to-peer software architecture |
| Founded | San Francisco, California (2011) |
| Founder | Micha Benoliel (CEO, Co-founder) Stanislav Shalunov (CTO, Co-founder) Greg Hazel (Co-founder) Taylor Ongaro (Co-founder) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
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Number of locations
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1 |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products |
FireChat Tethering |
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Production output
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 1,500,000-6,000,000 installs (November 2012) |
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Number of employees
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11-50 (2014) |
| Website | opengarden |
Open Garden, Inc. is an American company based in San Francisco, California, that develops a free, closed source mobile application called FireChat that enables peer-to-peer mobile Internet connection sharing with faster and more efficient data transmissions by automatically and actively choosing and switching to the best available network without requiring users to manually sift through available networks to find the best one available. Open Garden supports and promotes open wireless networks and is a member of the Open Wireless Coalition, which was founded by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Open Garden, Inc. was co-founded in 2011 by businessman Micha Benoliel, Systems architect Taylor Ongaro, Internet architect Stanislav Shalunov and software developer Greg Hazel in San Francisco, California in the United States. The company's co-founders share similar backgrounds in Internet infrastructure and peer-to-peer technology. In the period between 2004 and 2005, Benoliel was working with Skype, as well as negotiating the deals with European telcommunication companies that provided the fundamentals for Skype In and Skype Out. Ongaro spent much of his career with IBM's Federal Chief Technology Office. Meanwhile, Shalunov has spent much of his career working on Internet infrastructure, in the beginning at Internet2, the US academic network consortium, then at the peer-to-peer filesharing service BitTorrent, where he met Hazel, lead developer of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, used by more than 200 million peer-to-peer users worldwide.
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