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Kosmix

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Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they’re looking for.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk.

Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos’ personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions.

Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

Recent Milestones

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  Kosmix was acquired by Walmart for $300M. (4/18/11)
  Posted 4/18/11 at 9:48am via allthingsd.com
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  Kosmix added Rajesh Kumar as Senior Member of Technical Staff. (10/14/10)
  Posted 6/18/13 at 12:21pm
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  Kosmix added Stefanie Kraus as Director of User Experience. (3/1/10)
  Posted 3/20/10 at 9:02am
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  Kosmix acquired Cruxlux. (10/19/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 5:19am via techcrunch.com
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  Kosmix received $20M in Series D funding. (12/8/08)
  Posted 12/8/08 at 5:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Kosmix — Kosmix Goes Horizontal (6/25/08)
  Posted 6/25/08 at 9:22am via techcrunch.com
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  Kosmix received $10M in Series C funding. (12/1/07)
  Posted 12/13/07 at 5:33am via paidcontent.org
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  Kosmix added Abhishek Gattani as Director Engineering. (9/1/07)
  Posted 1/21/13 at 8:22pm
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  Kosmix added Saumil Mehta as Director of Product. (3/17/07)
  Posted 3/16/11 at 9:57pm
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  Kosmix added Sailesh Ramakrishnan as Director, Engineering. (1/17/06)
  Posted 10/15/13 at 10:44am
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  Kosmix received $18M in Series B funding. (1/1/06)
  Posted 10/1/08 at 11:22am
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  Kosmix received $7M in Series A funding. (11/1/05)
  Posted 12/13/07 at 5:34am via venturebeat.com
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  Kosmix added Mark Johnson as Product Manager. (9/1/05)
  Posted 2/1/13 at 2:11pm
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  Kosmix added Anand Rajaraman as Founder & Chairman. (1/1/05)
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am
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  Kosmix added Vikram Marathe as Country Head.
  Posted 10/26/10 at 9:06am
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  Kosmix added Venky Harinarayan as Co-Founder.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am

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Sources

1. http://allthingsd.com/20110418/exclusive-wal-mart-paid-300-million-plus-for-kosmix/ (allthingsd.com) [edit]
2. Kosmix Acquires Cruxlux, The Online Version Of Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. venturebeat.com [edit]
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5. Vertical Search Firm Kosmix Raises $10 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
6. Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Kosmix Goes Horizontal (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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