SubMate launches its public beta at The Next Web

Amsterdam, Netherlands | April 29, 2010

SubMate allows you to discover new people and things to do in your areas defined by your regular commutes. http://pressdoc.com/p/0001gt

Everyday, more than 200 million people in the world take the subway to go to work, study or simply go out. SubMate wants to provide its users with a dashboard of their life! They simply sign up or connect via Facebook on SubMate, save their commutes and interests. Based on these, we provide them with a feed of people to meet and things to do in their areas. SubMate is only 4 months old but have already been finalists at The Next Web, Innovate100 and Plugg startups competition.

SubMate is born during Paris Startup Weekend in december 2009. The idea is that everyday millions of people do the same trips in public transportation. By those trips we can define where they spend most of their time (home, work, university,...) and provide them the opportunity to meet new people who share common interests and discover things to do in their areas.
Instead of check-in, à la Foursquare, we prefer to define implicit areas from the daily commute the users provide and deliver them instant value. Most of the people spend lot of time around where they work, study and of course live but in urban areas it's frequent that you don't know a lot of people or what is happening there. 

Only 4 months old, SubMate has already been featured in numerous conferences around Europe : finalist at Plugg 2010 (Brussels, Belgium), semi-finalist at Innovate 100 (Paris,France) and finalist at The Next Web (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

We decided to use the tremendous opportunity that is The Next Web to open SubMate's public beta. For the moment, SubMate is available for New York, London, Paris, and will deploy to 15 more cities before the summer.

Submate is both a website, an iPhone app (currently pending for Apple review) and we are currently developing an Android version of the app (will be available during the summer).

SubMate is based in Paris and is currently looking for seed funding.

To contact us:
press@submate.com
http://twitter.com/SubMate
http://facebook.com/SubMate
phone : Laurent Kretz, co-founder and biz guy: +33 6 73 86 03 67
             Jonathan Benoudiz, co-founder and marketing guy: +33 6 34 04 63 76