data founded seattle 2004 headquarters 701 pike street suite 1500 seattle wa 98101 key people brian lent founder rob lilleness ceo 1 website medio.com medio is a b2b mobile analytics provider based in seattle wa . the company processes pre existing data 2 to provide historic and predictive analytics . medio is built on a cloud based 3 hadoop platform and is designed to interpret big data for mobile enterprise . medio has had various partners including ibm rovio 4 verizon t mobile 5 abc and disney 6 medio was founded in 2004 by brian lent bill bryant david bluhm and michael libes and employed 40 people . 7 founded to be the google of mobile search engines 8 medio was backed by 30 million in initial venture funding from various tech companies including accel partners mohr davidow ventures and frazier technology ventures . medio received 11 million more in 2006 9 to create a mobile analytics search engine capable of searching for ringtones graphics and internet delivered information . 8 this sparked employment to over 100 employees for some time but in 2009 google released their new mobile search engine . rob lilleness who joined the company as president and coo in 2007 and was subsequently named ceo in 2009 took that as an opportunity to refocus as a predictive analytics and data science provider using their recommendations engine as a key component of their newly focused company . 10 the shift resulted in lay offs of much of the staff scaling back to nearly 60 employees . 11 by the end of 2010 the company became profitable nearly tripling its sales from previous years . 12 with the latest version of the medio platform and the release of products like k invite medio has grown to 70 employees with a total of 44 million in venture funding . 6 on july 1 2014 medio was acquired by nokia and the company plans to grow their presence in seattle . 13 14 references edit robert p. lilleness businessweek john trent october 5 2012 . engineering grad lent shares story . unr . retrieved 2013 08 02 . greg lamm october 26 2011 . ibm powers seattle s medio systems in the cloud . puget sound business journal . nicole perlroth august 19 2011 . angry birds developer partners with medio as it heads into billion dollar valuation territory . forbes . retrieved 2013 08 30 . sharma amol november 12 2007 . t mobile wagers deal with google is worth the risk wsj.com . online.wsj.com . retrieved 2013 08 11 . a b dean takahashi may 14 2013 . medio launches way for game and app developers to get more users . venturebeat . retrieved 2013 07 06 . john cook october 27 2005 . venture capital aiming to establish mobile search . seattlepi.com . retrieved 2013 08 14 . a b duryee tricia 2007 03 19 . business & technology medio launches cellphone ad network seattle times newspaper . seattletimes.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . john cook 2006 11 15 . medio attracts 30 million seattle mobile search startup will expand . seattlepi.com . retrieved 2013 08 30 . medio taps top executive seattlepi.com july 2 2007 . ina fried march 17 2011 . onetime mobile search player medio aims for rebirth as analytics company . allthingsd . retrieved 2013 07 26 . brier dudley august 19 2008 . angry birds maker rovio taps seattle s medio seattle times newspaper . seattletimes.com . retrieved 2013 08 15 . nokia looks to bolster its here maps business with recent buys forbes june 17 2014 . nokia acquires mobile analytics company medio for here location platform geekwire june 12 2014 . external links edit medio.com website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title medio & oldid 691037451 categories analytics companiesbig data companiesmobile technologysoftware companies established in 2004 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 latvie u edit links this page was last modified on 17 november 2015 at 07 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view