Social search startup Mechanical Zoo raises $2M more
The Mechanical Zoo, the Googler-packed social search startup, brought in $2 million in convertible promissory note funding from August Capital, reports PE Wire. The same investment firm provided a $6 million first round of funding at the end of October.
As we reported earlier, the San Francisco-based company blends users’ social networks with their search habits, allowing them to identify the exact right people to answer their queries.
Social search product Aardvark: Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better
Public details have been scant about the social search product from The Mechanical Zoo, a company chock full of former Googlers that just announced it raised $6 million from August Capital and Baseline Ventures. But for the last three months, I’ve actually been a beta tester for the company’s first product, Aardvark.im.
It’s one of the best web applications I’ve seen during my year with VentureBeat.
The simplest explanation is Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — real-time, rapid… Continue Reading
Social search startup The Mechanical Zoo cages $6M
The Mechanical Zoo, a social search startup founded by a team of former Google employees, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding.
Like many other companies, such as Delver and AskMeGo, The Mechanical Zoo says it’s trying to tailor web search results to personal tastes by tapping into a user’s “social graph”. What does that actually mean? As the company puts it, the service will help users “identify the right person, among the… Continue Reading