Add an eventLanyrd Press Pack
Background information
Lanyrd; the social professional events directory, was founded in 2010 by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe. The startup is a product of Y Combinator’s Winter 2011 batch, and raised a further round of $1.4 million of seed funding in 2011. Investors include Index Ventures Seed and PROfounders Capital.
Lanyrd helps people to get more out of professional events, providing support to users throughout the conference lifecycle; by helping people find events, meet the right people whilst there and then providing an archive of slides, notes and videos once the event has finished.
Lanyrd is closely integrated with Twitter and LinkedIn, and recommends events that your social network contacts are attending. The site works like a wiki, leveraging the community it serves by encouraging users to enter event details and edit data.
Lanyrd also provides iPhone and mobile web apps, providing at-event support for attendees including offline storage of schedule information and event attendee directories.
Essential links
- http://lanyrd.com/ - Lanyrd
- http://lanyrd.com/iphone/ - Lanyrd iPhone app
- http://lanyrd.com/mobile/ - Lanyrd Mobile Web app
- http://lanyrd.com/blog/ - Lanyrd Blog
- http://twitter.com/lanyrd - Lanyrd on Twitter
One sentence product description
Lanyrd helps people get more out of conferences and professional events, by discovering the right events to attend, meeting the right people while there and catching up on slides, notes and video afterwards.
Specific press packs
- About our products for SXSW Interactive 2013 (5th March 2013)
- About version 2.0 of our iPhone app (16th May 2012)
- About our products for Digital Shoreditch 2012 (17th April 2012)
Logo and branding guidelines
The square Lanyrd logo is available as a layered Adobe Fireworks file or a layered Adobe Photoshop file or a super large layered Adobe Fireworks file.
The transparent Lanyrd.com text logo can be downloaded as a a .png file or an .eps (encapsulated post-script) file.
Please also note that in publications Lanyrd appears capitalised and not as Lanyrd.com, please also include the url http://lanyrd.com/
Selected press
- ReadWriteWeb: How Lanyrd Uses HTML5 for a Great Mobile Web App
- TechCrunch: Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social
- Xconomy: Lanyrd: Twitter Meets LinkedIn Meets IMDB for the Conference Circuit
- Mashable: Lanyrd Keeps Your Conference Life On Track, Via Twitter
Contact
Contact Simon Willison or Natalie Downe at press@lanyrd.com