- Ness Computing
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Ness Computing is a personal search company. It was founded in October 2009 by Corey Reese, [1] Paul Twohey,[2] Nikhil Raghavan,[3] and Steven Schlansker. [4] The company is headquartered in Los Altos, California.
It closed a $5 million (USD) Series A[5] round of financing in November 2010 led by Vinod Khosla and Ramy Adeeb of Khosla Ventures, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, Joe Lonsdale of Palantir Technologies, and several angel investors.
The company, whose mission is to make search personal, is sometimes referred to as the "Palantir for fun". It aims to help people make decisions about dining, nightlife, entertainment, shopping, music, travel and more. The company refers to its technology as the "Likeness Engine", a combination of a recommendation engine that uses machine learning to look at data from social networks including Facebook and Foursquare, and a traditional search engine that serves up results based on these signals.
The company has 15 employees.[6] Corey Reese serves as CEO and Co-founder.[7] The company's machine learning division is led by Dr. Jeremy Schiff,[8] who was previously President and Co-Founder of Fotoflexer, and its mobile engineering division is led by Scott Goodson,[9] an original member of and senior engineer on Apple’s iOS team.
Ness Computing's website is likeness.com.
References
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyreese
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/twohey
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilraghavan
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenschlansker
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/19/ness-computing/
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/company/2243445
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyreese
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jschiff
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/iosengineer
External links
- With $5 Million In Their Pockets, Ness Has Quietly Built A Subjective Search Engine (MG Siegler, TechCrunch)
- Ness Computing Announces $5M Series A Financing to Develop Personal Search Engine (PRWeb)
- Ness: Ex-Apple Intern Launches Mobile Search Engine (Laurie Sullivan, MediaPost)
- Ness Computing Receives $5 Million and aims to Personalize Search (Search Demand)
- Ness Computing CrunchBase Profile (TechCrunch)
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