Addy - About

Our street addressing systems are broken. Here's why:

Archaic

Over 500 years ago, our world's first street addressing system was born. This was before we had cars. Before we had electricity. This system is still being used to interact with today's advanced technologies.

Not enough information

Parking instructions, buzzer codes, additional contact information, directions. We are often required to supplement our lengthy street addresses with a lot of additional information to simply share a location.

Hard to scale

Governments of fast-growing countries, particularly in the developing world, are required to carefully and effectively administer their country's addressing systems. This is very challenging, expensive, and inefficient.

Not standardized

There are over 200 different formats of addresses around the world. And in the increasingly connected, globalized world we live in, this simply doesn't make any sense.

Difficult to communicate

And even harder to remember. Why must an address be 5 lines of text, supplemented by additional directions and instructions?

Four billion people don't have one

In the developing world, a combination of landmark references, points of interest, and detailed directions are often used instead.

What if anyone, anywhere could create their own address?
What if this address looked something like this? addy.co/johnhome

Our mission is to empower people by giving them a functional address. We have built an incredibly simple solution and are building key partnerships to ensure that addies can be used in place of conventional addresses and beyond.

What are people using Addy for?

Event location sharing

Home / Office

Meeting Spots

Camping / Fishing Spots

Seamless Deliveries

Meet the Team

Addy is based in San Francisco, California and incubated by StartX

Khaled Naim

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Khaled is a second year MBA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds a BE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, and worked as a data integration consultant at Informatica for four years. Khaled grew up between London and Dubai, and is of Syrian origin. He enjoys traveling to all corners of the world, scuba diving, and photography.

David Vetrano

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

David holds a BS in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University. David has interned at Amazon and Google. He is currently on a leave of absence from a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is passionate about machine learning and computational neuroscience, is an avid epicure, and derives great satisfaction from music, espresso, solving problems in crazy ways, and exploring the world.