# Yocal

Like Yelp but for Local. Marketing platform banding together small businesses.

## Elevator pitch
Yocal helps local businesses compete with the marketing of their corporate and franchised competition by banding them together on a co-marketing platform. In less than a year, during COVID, we bootstrapped our way to a powerful go-to-market channel for this “micro business” space.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/yocal
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:89867
- Last updated: 2026-06-22T05:03:22Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-22T19:34:22Z

## Quick facts
- 🚀 2,000+ businesses on Yocal platform in the first 2 pilot cities launched.
- 🏆 Experienced CEO. Cofounded 3 tech startups with 2 successful exits
- 🔥 Fastest growing "support local" campaign ever. Paving the way for Yocal in 80+ cities
- 📺 Featured 28+ times on local news stations around the country
- 🎯 Proprietary tech at work identifying 10K+ locally-owned, independent businesses across America
- 📈 Over 30M small businesses in US market and growing

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:46839: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:46840: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## Story
Big box retail & chains are great money machines, but they are turning our cities into cookiecutter-ville. Locally-owned, independent businesses are the heart and soul of America. Consumers want to support these businesses but have no platform to turn to find them. Big Tech Won't HelpNational corporations have completely diluted the term "local". On top of that, current platforms depend on revenue from e-commerce, corporations, and franchises. What's Next?

## Team
- Dave Loveland (Co-founder)
- Robert L. Johnson (Co-founder)

## Recent posts
- "We had a line out the door for hours" | Broadcast Messaging Results (2022-03-09T01:10:38Z)

## Q&A
- Q: Great Idea! I have quesation what is the size of the community currently? How much will it cost to increase the size of the community? As a restaurant owner this would be the main pitch that a community exits. There seems some software at the point of sale where a consumer inputs there phone number. Can you please provide more details there as to why a consumer would input there phone number. That seems to be part of the reward programs, but just seems that there would be some frication there to input a phone number.
- Q: Hi love the idea and very interested 😀What are revenue projections for 2022 and 2023? and based off what milestones are these models based on? How many businesses signed up would u need for these models to work out?
- Q: Hello, I would love to discuss further, first having a more detailed look at your financials including projections especially for the industry you're in and also about alternative funding opportunities available at our company if we are satisfied. You can drop me an email at richard@700capital.com, then we can start looking at financing your whole target. Thanks.