Portfolio: Search

As Internet content continues to expand exponentially, search technology becomes a necessity. Although Google is the obvious "800 lb Gorilla of general purpose search", increasingly there are opportunities emerging for domain specific search and more focused forms of algorithmic and semantic search. We are continually searching for new business opportunities here.

Endeca
Location: Cambridge, MA
CEO: Steve Papa

Endeca has pioneered a new generation of search software that enables users to not only easily find what they are looking for, but also to discover information, insights, and relationships across data which they need but did not know was available.

Jingle Networks
Location: Menlo Park, CA
CEO: Scott Kliger

Jingle Networks is creating an exciting new media network through 1-800-FREE411, the nation's leading advertiser-supported directory assistance service, which is revolutionizing the directory assistance industry by offering consumers a free alternative to the high cost 411 services provided by landline carriers and mobile phone companies. 1-800-FREE411 is supported by national and local advertisers who use 1-800-FREE411 as both a branding and direct-response media channel to target messages to callers within the context of a normal-length 411 call. In addition, FREE411.com on the Internet provides consumers with an easy to use Web-based resource for telephone number lookups.

oneforty.com
Location: Boston, MA
CEO: Laura Fitton

oneforty.com is Twitter's missing app store.The company has built a marketplace for the Twitter community to discover and share tools and services that make Twitter valuable. They provide a business platform for 20k+ developers to market their innovations. The company looks to make sense of the chaotic ecosystem with categories, tags and “essentials” to introduce new users to apps. They have 1300+ items with descriptions, screenshots, links, reviews, live Twitter commentary, tags and more.

This Life, Inc.
Location: New York City
CEO: Brian Schechter

This Life is the creator of the highly acclaimed new dating site, HowAboutWe.com. "How about we..." is about putting the date back in dating. Members say "How about we..." and fill in the dots with dates they'd have fun going on. Magical dates. Simple dates. Wild dates. Lovely dates. Each day the site will send members new dates that match their interests and concurrently send dates members propose to people who might like them. Then members can check out people's profiles, message each other, and go out. No more pattern matching algorithms and awkward coffees.. just fun meetings with something to do. That's what "How about we..." is all about.

ZoomInfo
Location: Waltham, MA
CEO: Jonathan Stern

ZoomInfo is a business information search engine used to quickly find information about industries, companies, people and products. ZoomInfo is used by sales and marketing professionals to identify business opportunities, by recruiters to locate talent, and by anyone conducting in-depth research about products, services and businesses. ZoomInfo’s semantic search engine continually crawls the Business Web – the millions of company Websites, news feeds and other online sources – to identify company and people information which is then organized into fresh, comprehensive and objective profiles. ZoomInfo currently has profiles on more than 40 million people and over 3.5 million companies, and its search engine adds more than 20,000 new profiles every day.