Evri
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Evri is a mobile content discovery engine. It focuses on topic-based news aggregation. It has offices in Seattle and San Francisco. The technology specializes in returning results for breaking news, regularly followed topics, new topic searches, and friends' recommendation. Primary products include personalized news readers for iPad and Android tablets and vertical news applications for touchscreen smart phones.
's Vulcan Inc.
Topic-Based Aggregation
Evri's topic-based approach to news aggregation is a divergence from the older source-based paradigm. When the user identifies a topic, Evri scours 15,000 web sources, plus social networks, to deliver editorial. There are millions of topic-based channels.Technology
Evri's core technology platform relies on natural language processing and semantic search to deliver channels of aggregated content on millions of topics. It reconciles content against semi-structured and trend databases to determine result ranking.Funding
Evri is funded by Vulcan Capital, the investment arm of Paul AllenPaul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates...
's Vulcan Inc.
Vulcan Inc.
Vulcan Inc. is an investment and project management company founded in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to manage his investments...