Tech Company Financing Transactions

Kosmix Funding Round

Kosmix, based in Mountain View, secured $10 million in funding from DAG Ventures, Accel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/11/2007
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$10,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

DAG Ventures (Lead Investor)

Accel Partners (Theresia Gouw Ranzetta)

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Ravi Mhatre)

Proceeds Purpose
Venky Harinarayan, co-founder of Kosmix said, "The new funding represents a strategic asset for us as we continue to invest in people, technology and distribution to achieve our vision of creating the start page for every topic on the Web."

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Internet & IoT
Mailing Address
444 Castro Street 109
Mountain View, CA 94041
USA
Email Address
Overview
At Kosmix, we're passionate about building a world class search engine that lets people search less, and discover more great stuff. There are billions of pages on the web that are useful, but never see the light of day through a standard search engine. We want to help you find those great pages, and make it easy and fun to do in the process.
Profile
Kosmix LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Kosmix Company Twitter Account
Company News
Kosmix News
Facebook
Kosmix on Facebook
YouTube
Kosmix on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Co-Founder
Venky Harinarayan
  Venky Harinarayan LinkedIn Profile  Venky Harinarayan Twitter Account  Venky Harinarayan News  Venky Harinarayan on Facebook
Co-Founder
Anand Rajaraman
  Anand Rajaraman LinkedIn Profile  Anand Rajaraman Twitter Account  Anand Rajaraman News  Anand Rajaraman on Facebook
Vice President
Sts Prasad
  Sts Prasad LinkedIn Profile  Sts Prasad Twitter Account  Sts Prasad News  Sts Prasad on Facebook
Vice President
Ravi Raj
  Ravi Raj LinkedIn Profile  Ravi Raj Twitter Account  Ravi Raj News  Ravi Raj on Facebook
VP - Bus. Development
Michelle Sangster
  Michelle Sangster LinkedIn Profile  Michelle Sangster Twitter Account  Michelle Sangster News  Michelle Sangster on Facebook
VP - Engineering
Sri Subramaniam
  Sri Subramaniam LinkedIn Profile  Sri Subramaniam Twitter Account  Sri Subramaniam News  Sri Subramaniam on Facebook


 

 

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