About us
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Diego, Local Data Exchange builds the ready-made APIs that local SaaS marketing platforms run on — so their teams ship products instead of maintaining scrapers.
Our mission
We aim to transform the way local SaaS marketing companies manage and enhance their offerings by delivering innovative, efficient, and reliable solutions. Our APIs enable businesses to scale faster, improve margins, and provide seamless user experiences to their customers.
The premise is simple: the hardest, least differentiated part of a local marketing product is the data pipeline. Publisher relationships, rate limits, schema drift, and authentication are a permanent tax on engineering time — and none of it is what your customers pay you for. We carry that cost so our clients don't have to.
A suite of APIs built for the problems local SaaS platforms actually hit at scale.
Reviews, social media, and directory data across 50+ platforms — supporting reputation management tools and enterprise social dashboards, without surrendering the customer relationship.
Learn more →Automated listings management that shares business location data with 130+ major directories, GPS systems, navigation devices, and social platforms.
Learn more →Find and validate business profiles across the web using Name, Address, and Phone data — so records stay accurate and deduplicated at scale.
Learn more →Why LDE
One client reduced their team from 180 people to 12–14 while continuing to scale their customer base, saving millions of dollars annually. With proven results and a customer-centric approach, we are committed to solutions that help our clients grow efficiently.
Our founders
Experienced executive and entrepreneur across media, adtech, and navigation. He received his MBA in Finance and Applied Statistics from the University of Miami Herbert Business School and has had five successful startup exits. He has been a speaker and contributor to Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Strategies, BIA/Kelsey, and the Local Search Association. In his free time, Gideon oversees his family's bean-to-bar chocolate farm in Costa Rica.
Full-stack engineer and successful entrepreneur with three successful startup exits as senior developer and executive. Over a decade of experience working with data scientists in media and insurance industries for AI and ML initiatives. Creator of top plug-ins for mobile optimization and SEO, and builder of B2B SaaS products used by millions. He has contributed to Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Strategies, BIA/Kelsey, and the Local Search Association.
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