Massive second round of funding for Freebase - $42 Million

Published in January 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Benchmark Capital, Business, Funding, Goldman Sachs, Internet, Investments, Millennium Technology Ventures, Money, Omidyar Network, Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Freebase, the open and shared database of the world’s knowledge, has raised a whopping amount of money in its Series B round of funding, $42 Million, in a round that included Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs. Total funding to date is $57 million.
The investment is considerable, and comes at a time when a number of […]

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Hakia takes on major search engines backed up by a small army of international investors

Published in December 11th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Alexandra Investment Management, Funding, Internet, Investments, Search Engines, Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Social Search Engines, Software, Technology, Web 2.0
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In our planned series of publications about the Semantic Web and its Apps today Hakia is our 3rd featured company.
Hakia.com, just like Freebase and Powerset is also heavily relying on Semantic technologies to produce and deliver hopefully better and meaningful results to its users.
Hakia is building the Web’s new “meaning-based” (semantic) search engine with the […]

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Powerset – the natural language processing search engine empowered by Hbase in Hadoop

Published in December 4th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Amidzad, Foundation Capital, Peter Thiel, Search Engines, Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Software, Technology, The Founder's Fund, Web 2.0
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In our planned series of publications about the Semantic Web and its apps today Powerset is going to be our second company, after Freebase, to be featured. 
Powerset is a Silicon Valley based company building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing. Their unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage […]

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Freebase: open, shared database of the world’s knowledge

Published in November 30th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Technology, Web 2.0
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Freebase, created by Metaweb Technologies, is an open database of the world’s information. It’s built by the community and for the community – free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites.
Already, Freebase covers millions of topics in hundreds of categories. Drawing from large open data sets […]

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The Semantic Web and its Applications Today

Published in November 29th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Semantic Apps, Semantic Web, Technology, Web 2.0
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Since Web 2.0 Innovations is all about discovering and showcasing the innovation on web, we think the Semantic Web is playing a significant role of the next web transformation. Therefore in a series of publications we will try to discover, highlight and feature the next generation of web-based semantic applications, engines, platforms, mash-ups, machines, products, […]

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