About Ovogo

About Us

Eyal Schondorf

Eyal Schondorf

Founder & CEO

Friso M. Koopmans

Friso M. Koopmans

Director of Data Management and Compliance

Stormur Björn

Stormur Björn

Lead Technical Architect

Weslee Trout

Weslee Trout

Head of SEO

Noemilyn (Lyka) Noche

Noemilyn (Lyka) Noche

Research Specialist

Levani Dalbashvili

Levani Dalbashvili

Full Stack Developer

Mikhail Domakhin

Mikhail Domakhin

Lead Data Analyst

Ervin Sunga

Ervin Sunga

Research Team Lead


Why Ovogo?

The world is rapidly changing, bringing new complexities to decision-making, specifically deciding where to live, work, settle down, and raise a family.

Safety has become a paramount concern, especially in the United States, where violent crime rates have been rising in many cities. Yet access to hyper-localized crime data is lacking, leaving people uncertain about the security of different areas.

In the modern economy, job stability is no longer a guarantee. As careers beckon people to relocate more frequently, understanding how different locations impact earning potential is crucial. Salaries, taxes, and costs of living vary drastically between regions. Without granular data comparing these financial factors, maximizing net income gets complicated.

Furthermore, inflation has squeezed household budgets, amplifying the need to pinpoint regions with lower living costs. Yet existing online resources tend to provide only broad-brushed cost estimates, falling short of the tailored insights people require.

Climate change also looms large, particularly for those making long-term investments like buying property. With projections of rising sea levels, increased wildfire risk, and other environmental impacts, choosing where to put down roots requires weighing an area's climate resilience. However, accessing digestible, location-specific climate data to inform such decisions remains challenging.

Social tensions also fray community fabrics, making cultural fit a vital consideration. People seek areas aligned with their values and lifestyles; they desire to feel welcomed and build a sense of belonging. Yet, common data often relates to basic demographic stats, failing to tell complete and accurate life stories as it is in various communities.

Relocation decisions arise repeatedly during life's major transitions—beginning careers, changing jobs, marrying, having children, and retiring. While ample travel advice exists about visiting destinations, in-depth information about day-to-day life in thousands of areas remains scarce. The inability to holistically vet a wide array of options compounds the difficulty.


The Ovogo Solution

Ovogo's vision is to help people maximize their potential and live better lives by empowering them with accurate, recent, and actionable information and guidance.

We aim to educate in a simple manner and enable well-informed decisions on where it might be best for each unique individual or family to live, work, maximize earnings, settle down, or build a home.

We deliver on this promise through highly customized data analyses that provide specific, updated, and relevant insights matched to each user's specific situation and goals. Unlike generic city-level rankings, Ovogo offers a personalized experience with in-depth intelligence about states, cities, and neighborhoods in the U.S.

Ovogo's unique selling propositions differentiate us as the most comprehensive, actionable platform for data-driven life decisions:

  • Hyper-Local, Tailored Data: Beyond outdated city rankings, we crunch robust datasets to serve up-to-date locale profiles tailored to our users' concerns, finances, family status, political views, and personal preferences.
  • Covering All Critical Factors: Our analysts integrate the latest crime statistics, climate risks, economic indicators, community demographics, and quality-of-life metrics so users can evaluate locations holistically.
  • Highly Customizable: Through our engaging digital tools, users can adjust weighted preferences to find the optimal places that align with their priorities—safety, cost of living, discretionary income potential, sociopolitical fit, and more.
  • Decision Empowerment: Unlike generic data sites, Ovogo directly connects data insights to significant life choices like career moves, home buying, raising families, and retirement planning. Our localized rankings, in-depth analyses, and analytical visualizations empower confident decisions.


Our Core Values & Culture

At Ovogo, our core values shape everything we do—the insights we provide, the products we build, and the experiences we create for our users and employees.

Our curiosity drives us to constantly learn, explore new datasets and sources, and expand our understanding of the world's communities. This inquisitive mindset inspires us to keep an open mind while helping our users evaluate options.

Openness is essential to our success. We embrace individuals from all cultures, backgrounds, and walks of life. Through Ovogo's platform, users benefit by discovering the nuances of communities nationwide and finding locations that resonate with their values and identities.

Above all, a humanistic spirit grounds our work. We sincerely care about empowering people to maximize their potential and live better lives. Our ultimate goal is to improve communities, the environment, and society.

Currently, all our data insights and personalized tools are offered completely free. We believe in putting user needs first and avoiding inundating people with excessive information. Our approach gives users precisely what they need through customizable, localized data that illuminates the path.

This people-first mentality extends to our team as well. We cultivate a remote, collaborative atmosphere where every voice is heard and respected. Creativity and open communication allow all employees to impact our strategic direction. Just as we hope to enrich our users' lives, we're committed to fostering an environment where our team can thrive personally and professionally.


Join us. Partner with us

Users:

Simplify your search for where to build your best life with Ovogo's free personalized data and insights. Explore our platform to discover customized rankings and in-depth locale analysis aligned with your unique priorities. We welcome you to try Ovogo, dig into the data, and share your feedback. User input helps us continuously expand our datasets and enhance our tools to make better-informed life decisions.

Potential Partners:

From real estate to media companies, Ovogo offers a powerful resource to advise your audiences with credible, hyper-local intelligence. Our team is eager to collaborate on creating content experiences or integrating our comprehensive location data into your product ecosystem. Contact us to explore partnership opportunities to enlighten more people on this critical topic.

Prospective Employees:

We're building an innovative, mission-driven remote team united in using data to improve lives. If democratizing insights that help people thrive inspires you, we'd love to discuss roles where you can have an impact. Our friendly, collaborative culture embraces curiosity, openness, dependability, and solutions that create positive change. Join us in transforming how major life choices are made.

Reach out today to explore how Ovogo's authoritative, personalized data can inform smarter decisions about where to live, work, settle down, and raise a family. Together, we can simplify the complex and empower people to cultivate their highest potential.

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