Tradepal
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | , USA |
| Founder(s) | Karim Guessous (Co-founder, CEO)[1] Tamar Burton (Co-founder, CXO) |
| Industry | Virtual learning environment |
Tradepal (est. in 2009) is an education technology company based in San Francisco, California. The Company designs online tutoring software for collaborative learning to increase student success and retention in schools and colleges.
During their early initiatives, the Company developed technologies to facilitate the building of a proprietary interest graph leading to the discovery, sharing, and trading of items among like-minded people. The company developed a mobile application to provide students with a platform to support fellow students struggling with food and housing insecurity along with a growing number of campus initiatives including Keep America Beautiful with RecycleMania, Campus-based Food Pantries, and the Food Recovery Network (FRN).[2]
Tradepal introduced its people-centric marketplace at the DEMO conference held in Santa Clara, California on September 12 to 14, 2011.[3][4] The peer-to-peer (P2P) product was well received by the Silicon Valley technical community, and was named one of the top 10 favorite startups at the DEMO Conference.[5][6] As of April 2013 Tradepal.com offered P2P sharing of resources to college communities.[7]
Tradepal originally designed a P2P platform where counterparts would buy, sell and trade and ultimately take steps to reduce their carbon footprint by promoting sustainable behaviors through reuse.[8] In 2014, the Company created a mobile-first application to engage students promoting sustainability on college campuses. The Company collaborated with student organizations located in California, Florida, and Texas who were part of the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) network of colleges and universities. In 2018, the Company transitioned into a business-to-business (B2B) service where it develops educational, training and collaborative learning software platforms.