Cake Technologies, Inc., announced it has received $5 million in “pre-Series A” funding led by Peak Ventures, with participation from Pelion Venture Partners and Kickstart Seed Fund. Founded in 2016, Cake Technologies, Inc., is focused on making the web more accessible and delightful on mobile.
Apple purchased Pop Up Archive, an app that helps media companies improve productivity and monetize content by adding a semantic SEO-ready layer to media. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Pop Up Archive makes sound searchable by automatically creating timestamped transcripts and keywords, which
By using voice to type in search queries – and easily switching between languages – Google Go users can use this new app to discover, explore, and share web content, even on slow connections and smartphones with low space.
Lucene-based search engine Elasticsearch announced it acquired software startup Swiftype. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Built on top of a highly refined search algorithm, Swiftype’s dashboard lets site owners deliver and control customizable search for their website or mobile app with just
Vidrovr, a digital media startup, announced the close of $1.3 million in seed financing, led by Samsung NEXT, with participation from Verizon Ventures, RGA Ventures, and Social Starts. Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos
Startup Tracker, a startup search engine previously only available as a browser extension, launched its full-fledged web app with a host of new features. These include short company summaries with links to profiles on different startup platforms, and a “magic button” to ask for missing
OneBar is a Slack productivity tool that offers a single chatbot for all search needs. It allows teams to search a company's JIRA, Github, Google docs, and other systems all at once directly from Slack. OneBar for Slack was developed by Cofounder Andy Fan and
Multinational ecommerce giant eBay’s new image-recognition feature, Find It On eBay & Image Search, is powered by AI and uses pictures instead of words, making it easier for shoppers to find the things they love. Users can start their search on any social platform, like
Constructor.io announced it has raised $5 million in Series A financing led by Zetta Venture Partners. Signia Venture Partners also participated in the round. Constructor.io provides search services like Autocomplete as SaaS to help businesses improve revenue, performance, and UI. Big data processing is combined
Most people trade and hold Bitcoin but not many spend it on things, which is largely due to the fact that it is not always easy to find ecommerce sites that accept it as a transactional currency. Cryptoallowed is a cryptocurrencies search engine using Google's