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Whereoscope

Whereoscope is a service designed to help parents keep know where their kids are. Whereoscope uses smartphones and an intelligent sampling algorithm to provide the best possible accuracy without draining the battery. Whereoscope enables location-based geo-fencing so that parents can know when their kids arrive at school, leave soccer practice, or are just about to get home.

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Y Combinator
competitors
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #682

Whereoscope is a service designed to help parents keep know where their kids are. Whereoscope uses smartphones and an intelligent sampling algorithm to provide the best possible accuracy without draining the battery. Whereoscope enables location-based geo-fencing so that parents can know when their kids arrive at school, leave soccer practice, or are just about to get home.

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High Signal interpretation

Whereoscope is classified as Climate and energy from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Product facets
Whereoscopeparentslocation-based geo-fencingintelligent sampling algorithm
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Whereoscope

Climate and energy · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 45

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shared extracted concepts: parents; shared product terms: kids, design, keep, parent; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 36

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shared extracted concepts: parents; shared product terms: kids, parent, so

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match 28

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shared extracted concepts: parents; shared product terms: parent, when

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match 28

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shared extracted concepts: parents; shared product terms: design, parent

LOCCO

match 26

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shared extracted concept terms: location; shared product terms: uses, location

Ateios

match 16

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shared product terms: battery; shared product theme: climate and energy; same category: Climate and energy