Spock, the Menlo Park start-up that wants to provide a definitive search engine focused on people, has raised $7 million in a first round of VC funding from Clearstone and Opus Capital Ventures.
VentureBeat reviewed the secretive company here, after getting a demo. It wouldn’t allow VentureBeat to publish screenshots, for fear of alerting competition. Ucloo in China is gunning for the same market, though Ucloo is focused on Asia for now.
Previously, Spock raised an angel round from Clearstone. It will release a closed testing version early next year. Clearstone’s William Quigley, Opus’ Ken Elefant and TheFind.com chief executive Siva Kumar will join Spock’s board.
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sawng said:
Matt, sorry I do not understand one thing: why Spock was applauded while Ucloo was regarded \’worrisome\’? I do not like the idea of people search at all so I like neither of them. But I am longing to know the difference between the two… Please enlighten me a bit, thanks!
http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/27/ucloo-the-worrisome-chinese-people-search-engine/
http://venturebeat.com/2006/10/31/spock-offers-an-ambitious-people-search-engine
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M. Hones said:
I love these two websites for people searches, because I’m a people searcher, too:
