Local Sciences

What Local Sciences does

Local Sciences operates an online directory at localsciences.com that helps consumers and merchants find price, value, and service information. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and was founded in 2013 as a for-profit private entity. Its stated function is to act as an information intermediary between consumers seeking services and merchants offering them, organized around pricing and value discovery rather than a transactional marketplace.

No detailed product architecture, technology stack, or feature set is documented in the available source material, and there are no disclosed AI/ML components, APIs, SDKs, or integrations. The directory appears to function as a web-based listing resource rather than a SaaS or marketplace platform with documented technical infrastructure.

The business model is not disclosed: no pricing model, revenue mechanics, funding history, or customer segment mix is available. The company employs between 1 and 10 people and shows no evidence of parent ownership, subsidiaries, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic alliances. There is no disclosed revenue, ARR, GMV, or comparable financial metric, and no management team information is publicly documented in the source data.

Name

Local Sciences

Website

https://localsciences.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Local Sciences is an online directory that helps consumers and merchants find price, value, and service information. Founded in 2013 and based in Sunnyvale, the company operates a small (1-10 employee) private business with no disclosed revenue model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Local Business Directory

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Directory and Mailing List Publishers (51314)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Search & Business Directories (BPAMAAAE)

Keywords

• Online business directory
• Local search directory
• Merchant information listings
• Local price comparison
• Consumer search tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Sunnyvale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Local Sciences operates an online directory that helps consumers and merchants find price, value, and service information for local businesses. The platform aggregates merchant listings to enable searchable discovery of local services and pricing data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Local Sciences Online Directory Online directory platform that helps consumers and merchants find price, value, and service information for local businesses. Accessible via the company website.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Direct peers

• Thumbtack: Thumbtack connects consumers with local service professionals and surfaces pricing/quotes — a direct peer in matching consumers to merchants by service and price.
• Yelp: Yelp is the dominant online local business directory where consumers find merchant information including price, services, and reviews — the closest direct functional peer to LocalSciences.
• HomeAdvisor: HomeAdvisor (now part of Angi) is a directory for home service professionals with cost guides and merchant profiles — directly comparable in price/service transparency for local merchants.
• TripAdvisor: TripAdvisor operates a directory of local businesses (restaurants, attractions, services) with pricing, reviews, and discovery — overlapping with LocalSciences' local merchant discovery model.
• Foursquare: Foursquare is a local discovery platform helping consumers find nearby merchants and services via location-based search — comparable in local directory and discovery functionality.
• Nextdoor: Nextdoor is a hyperlocal directory and recommendation platform where neighbors share merchant and service recommendations — operating in the same local-discovery category as LocalSciences.
• Angi: Angi (formerly Angie's List) is a directory focused on local home services with price/cost data, reviews, and merchant profiles — directly comparable to a local price-and-service directory.
• Better Business Bureau: BBB operates a long-running directory of accredited local businesses with service and trust information — historically one of the canonical local business directories.

Broad incumbents

• Yellow Pages (Thryv): Yellow Pages is one of the original local business directories and still operates a national SMB directory online — a broad incumbent peer in the local listing space.
• Google Business Profile: Google's free business listing product is the largest local directory in existence and is embedded directly into Google Search and Maps, dwarfing any independent directory's reach.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/localsciences
• Facebookfacebook.com/localsciences
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tlc-creations

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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