Visual search engine Superfish nets $5.3M
Superfish, a stealthy startup that will eventually let users search by sight, reeled in $5.3 million in second-round financing. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has been in research mode for a couple of years and plans to launch the service in the next several months.
Very little is known about the actual product, though the firm is able to maintain another office in Israel. Paid Content has compared it to Russian visual search engine Quintura, which… Continue Reading
Quintura scores another round of funding for visual search engine
Visual search startup Quintura has raised a new round of funding to continue building out its engine, which is used on several media sites, including Maxim, the Russian version of Cosmo and ReadWriteWeb. As with its last round of funding, Quintura’s founders have not disclosed the exact amount, only calling it “several million dollars”.
Founded by Russians, the engine appears to have gotten the most attention in that country. However, it also recently hired a chief… Continue Reading
Quintura, the visual search engine, raises “several” million
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Quintura, a company offering a visual search engine, said it has raised “several millions” of dollars in a first round of venture funding from Luxembourg’s Mangrove Capital Partners.
(Update: Some reports have put the round at “around $5 million”; we haven’t confirmed.)
With Quintura, you search for a term, and Quintura offers you a “cloud” of words related to your term that helps you refine your search.
For example, if you search for iPhone (see screenshot below),… Continue Reading
Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more
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The latest round-up from tech-land:
Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t deterred others from joining the trend. Dell did something similar. And now Second Life has launched a business plan competition for “resident” entrepreneurs. The prize is a little less than US$2k, but it does include… Continue Reading