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GasBuddy history
GasBuddy company history timeline
Childhood friends Dustin Coupal (an ophthalmologist) and Jason Toews (a computer programmer from Saskatchewan) founded GasBuddy in June 2000 in Minneapolis.
They filed as a Minnesota for-profit corporation in April 2004 as GasBuddy Organization Inc.
In 2009, GasBuddy launched OpenStore with its first convenience store partner, Rutter's, by building the Rutter's app and supporting digital marketing efforts through its custom platform.
Towards the end of 2010, GasBuddy launched its own set of apps that allowed users to input prices via their smartphones.
In March 2013, UCG, a privately held, business-to-business company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, announced that Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) had acquired GasBuddy.
Initially only available in the United States and Canada, GasBuddy launched in Australia in March 2016.
On August 28, 2017, GasBuddy launched a gas savings program, Pay with GasBuddy, that lets consumers save at gas stations in the United States.
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