YaSabe provides comprehensive bilingual local search information for Hispanic consumers, including merchant and service listings, special offers and coupons, and classified ads. The site includes a job board that displays positions for bilingual speakers and emphasizes Latin culture and community. YaSabe also offers a human-powered social concierge called Ayudame through which local experts help consumers find community information. The company is led by CEO Zubair Talib and is based in Herndon, Virginia. It intends to use recent funding for product development, marketing, and continued development of content, traffic, and advertiser partnerships. Related articles indicate prior fundraising activity in April and October 2012. YaSabe is a bilingual social, mobile and local search company that focuses on Hispanic consumers in the U.S. The company's platform lets users search in English and Spanish to find and discover local businesses, coupons and other local information on YaSabe.com or via search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. Its local and mobile search platform enables community features like leaving comments and asking others for recommendations. YaSabe also offers location-aware mobile applications for iPhone and Android. The company is led by CEO Zubair Talib and Azim Tejani and is based in Herndon, VA. Financially, YaSabe recently received a venture capital investment from Piedmont RIA’s Militello Capital and earlier raised funding from CIT GAP funds; the amount of the recent investment was not disclosed. YaSabe is an online and mobile search engine designed to help U.S. Hispanics find businesses, jobs and other local information. The platform uses specialized technologies to crawl, curate and organize culturally relevant content for U.S. Hispanics and delivers it via the web and mobile browsers as well as Android and iPhone apps. Key product features include bilingual search, a local Q&A bulletin board for crowd-sourced answers and personalized recommendations, and mobile notification services for discovering products, services and coupons. For local businesses YaSabe offers subscription-based digital advertising products. The company says it will use newly raised capital for product development and to secure additional strategic alliances and sales channels. YaSabe was founded by CEO Zubair Talib and EVP Azim Tejani and is based in Herndon, VA.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2013