Ness Computing
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Ness Computing is a personal search company. It was founded in October 2009 by Corey Reese, Paul Twohey, Nikhil Raghavan, and Steven Schlansker. The company is headquartered in Los Altos, California.
It closed a $5 million (USD) Series A round of financing in November 2010 led by Vinod Khosla
and Ramy Adeeb of Khosla Ventures
, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, Joe Lonsdale
of Palantir Technologies
, and several angel investors.
The company, whose mission is to make search personal, is sometimes referred to as the "Palantir for fun". It aims to help people make decisions about dining, nightlife, entertainment, shopping, music, travel and more. The company refers to its technology as the "Likeness Engine", a combination of a recommendation engine that uses machine learning
to look at data from social networks including Facebook
and Foursquare, and a traditional search engine
that serves up results based on these signals.
The company has 15 employees. Corey Reese serves as CEO and Co-founder. The company's machine learning division is led by Dr. Jeremy Schiff, who was previously President and Co-Founder of Fotoflexer, and its mobile engineering division is led by Scott Goodson, an original member of and senior engineer on Apple’s iOS team.
Ness Computing's website is likeness.com.
It closed a $5 million (USD) Series A round of financing in November 2010 led by Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....
and Ramy Adeeb of Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, silicon technology and clean technology sectors....
, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is a founder of Palantir Technologies, a private company focused on analyzing, integrating, and visualizing data. Prior to Palantir Lonsdale was an early executive at Clarium Capital. He helped Peter Thiel grow the global...
of Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tysons Corner, Virginia, New York City and Covent Garden, London, is a software company that produces the Palantir Government and Palantir Finance platforms...
, and several angel investors.
The company, whose mission is to make search personal, is sometimes referred to as the "Palantir for fun". It aims to help people make decisions about dining, nightlife, entertainment, shopping, music, travel and more. The company refers to its technology as the "Likeness Engine", a combination of a recommendation engine that uses machine learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
to look at data from social networks including Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
and Foursquare, and a traditional search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
that serves up results based on these signals.
The company has 15 employees. Corey Reese serves as CEO and Co-founder. The company's machine learning division is led by Dr. Jeremy Schiff, who was previously President and Co-Founder of Fotoflexer, and its mobile engineering division is led by Scott Goodson, an original member of and senior engineer on Apple’s iOS team.
Ness Computing's website is likeness.com.
External links
- With $5 Million In Their Pockets, Ness Has Quietly Built A Subjective Search Engine (MG Siegler, TechCrunch)
- Ness Computing Announces $5M Series A Financing to Develop Personal Search Engine (PRWeb)
- Ness: Ex-Apple Intern Launches Mobile Search Engine (Laurie Sullivan, MediaPost)
- Ness Computing Receives $5 Million and aims to Personalize Search (Search Demand)
- Ness Computing CrunchBase Profile (TechCrunch)