commerce founded 2011 headquarters provo utah usa key people garrett gee ceo co founder kirk ouimet coo co founder ben turley cto co founder website scan 4 scan is a privately held company headquartered in provo utah united states . the company was founded in january 2011 and is privately owned and operated by scan inc 1 contents 1 overview 2 history 2.1 growth 2.2 revenue 2.3 features releases 2.4 snapchat purchase 3 references overview edit scan builds products and services related to scannable items such as qr codes . 2 scan s products consist of mobile applications that consumers use for reading a variety of physical codes such as qr codes nfc and machine recognizable images computer vision . 3 scan s website allows for the creation of qr codes as well as targeted codes that link to web destinations such as social network profiles websites and scan hosted personal pages . 4 5 as of june 2013 scan has raised 1.7 mm in seed investment 6 from google ventures the social capital partnership ludlow ventures naval ravikant troy carter shervin pishevar charles river ventures and vikas gupta . 7 the company launched its ios application in february 2011 and had received over 1 million installs three months later . 6 after a year and a half the application had been downloaded 10 million times . 3 as of december 2012 scan reported 25 million downloads on the ios and android platforms . 2 in 2014 scan was purchased by snapchat for 50 million . 8 history edit gee claims that his idea for scan was conceived when he received a smartphone for christmas in 2009 and scanned a qr code . gee said he wanted to create better web and mobile tools for working with qr codes and then recruited fellow students kirk ouimet and ben turley to found the company and launch the first ios application in a student competition at brigham young university byu where they placed second . the trio pursued funding with gee meeting with investors while continuing as a student at byu . 9 growth edit the application reached 1 million installs for ios three months after it launched and by march 2012 had reached over 10 million downloads in 77 countries for ios and android . 10 by the end of 2012 scan had been downloaded 25 million times and averaged 27 million scans per month . 11 gee claimed that at its highest it s getting 85 000 downloads a day and a bad day is 35 000 downloads a day . 12 in march 2012 scan had 9 employees . 13 revenue edit scan s reported revenue model relies on advertising revenue from scanned 1d barcodes that lead users to affiliate links and advertising . in may 2012 gee claimed that the affiliate and advertising revenue had topped 1 000 per day . 14 features releases edit in early 2012 scan had released support for scanning qr codes 1d barcodes and offered connections to these technologies in the form of websites shopping carts social media actions and lead generation pages . in february scan launched scan pages ; mobile optimized hosted sites for businesses and individuals that are linked to qr codes . 15 in may 2012 scan launched a scan to gram which allowed users to create qr codes that linked to their instagram profiles . 14 in december 2012 scan launched version 2.0 of its apps which also supported scanning of qr upc ean and isbn codes . 11 the scan website was overhauled in august 2013 making it easier to create qr codes and related materials . snapchat purchase edit with the sony email leak a sony executive was on the board of snapchat so news leaked that scan had been purchased by snapchat for 50 million . the new snapcode feature is powered off of scans technology . 16 references edit scan inc. foursquare company profile page foursquare retrieved on 12 september 2013 . a b ifeanyl kc . bum rushing qr code competitors scan inc.com 4 march 2012 . retrieved on 22 july 2013 . a b taub alexander . qr codes are dead long live qr codes a conversation with scan s founder garrett gee forbes 6 december 2012 . retrieved on 22 july 2013 . scan website 1 retrieved 22 july 2013 . crunchbase 2 a b popper ben . after 10m downloads in 1 year scan gets 1.7 m from menlo and google ventures to perfect qr codes venturebeat 23 february 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . angellist 3 constine josh . snapchat lets you add people via qr snaptags thanks to secret scan.me acquisition . techcrunch . retrieved 2016 04 03 . holland joel . college startup big scan on campus entrepreneur 20 april 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . http www.entrepreneur.com article 223138 a b biggs john . remember qr codes the leading reader scan has been downloaded 25 million times scans 27 million codes a month techcrunch 27 november 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . panzarino matthew . scan isn t satisfied with 27m scans in a month and 25m downloads overall it wants to fix the qr code tnw 27 november 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . mario . garrett gee co founder and engineer at scan.me ideamensch 21 march 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . a b empson rip . with 12m downloads scan launches scan to gram a new way to follow people on instagram techcrunch 10 may 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . yeung ken . qr codes might not be dead scan.me launches mobile sites & raises 1.7 million bubblicious 23 february 2012 . retrieved 22 july 2013 . constine josh . snapchat plans music feature acquired qr scan.me for 50m and vergence eyeglass cam for 15m . techcrunch . retrieved 2016 04 03 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scan organisation & oldid 744149607 categories companies based in utahcompanies established in 2011hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 12 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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