![]() ![]() The 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which ranks national companies based on three-year revenue growth, listed Untappd No. The New York Times and TIME both included it on their lists of the best apps of 2017.īy 2018, Untappd, now based in Wilmington, ranked as the fastest growing technology company in North Carolina. The free Untappd app allows users to discover and rate new beers, beer-drinking venues and beer-oriented events, as well as interact with other beer enthusiasts. “They worked nights and weekends (on opposite ends of the country) until 2015 when we all started working on Untappd full-time,” Taylor says. The two met on Twitter in 2010 through a blind tweet saying “looking for #design help on a new project.” Both, it turned out, were interested in building an online, social drinking community, where members could share their craft beer adventures. “Tim Mather and Greg Avola built the original Untappd app,” Taylor tells TechWire. Users entered their preferred beverages into the app and received suggestions of others that might meet their taste preferences, as well as where to find them in the local area. Based on research at Wilmington’s MARBIONC Lab, NextGlass analyzed the chemical compounds in wine and beer, then used the information to make drink recommendations based on the science of taste.Īccording to Forbes, Taylor’s NextGlass app, which launched in November 2014, got 250,000 downloads in its first three weeks in the Apple app store and was experiencing a 100,000-downloads-per-week growth rate. In 2015, he showed up in Forbes’ list of “30 Under 30” food and beverage entrepreneurs “changing the way we eat and drink” with his NextGlass app. WILMINGTON – At just 31 years of age, Kurt Taylor has already received some of the biggest accolades in the business press. Editor’s note: This is part of a series of interviews from WRAL TechWire featuring “Legends – The men and women who helped create and build North Carolina’s technology and life science ecosystem.” These leaders will join Jim Goodnight, Monica Doss, Dennis Daugherty, Charles Hamner and Venessa Harrison as members of WRAL TechWire’s virtual Hall of Fame, which named its first members in 2017. ![]()
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