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General Information
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Website	ark.com
Blog	ark.com/blog
Twitter	@ark
Category	Consumer Web
Phone	+1 (415) 355-4ARK
Email
Employees	5
Founded	2011
Description	Search for people.

Offices
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San Francisco, USA

181 Fremont Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA

People
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Yiming Liu

Founder and Chief Platform Officer

Patrick Riley

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Bill Tai

Investor

Pejman Nozad

Investor

Funding
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TOTAL	$4.45M
VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL	$4.45M
Seed, 11/11 Yuri Milner Ron Conway Michael Schmidt Brian Coote Stuart Hunter	$250k
Seed, 4/12 Andreessen Horowitz Charles River Ventures SV Angel Greylock Partners Intel Capital Atlas Venture Crosslink Capital Felicis Ventures Lightbank Transmedia Capital Tencent Salesforce Expansion Venture Capital	$4.2M

Competitors
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Google, Facebook, PeekYou, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Pipl, Greplin, PeekYou

Tags
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Ark
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Ark.com is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion social network profiles indexed, and using a modern architecture, Ark provided the most comprehensive people search engine in the world.

Prior to founding Ark, our team has experience at Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium, Yahoo! Research and Y-Combinator.

Milestones
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Ark added Pejman Nozad as Investor. (4/1/12)

Posted 5/21/12 at 12:33pm
Ark added Bill Tai as Investor. (4/18/12)

Posted 4/26/12 at 12:51pm
Ark received $4.2M in Seed funding. (4/25/12)

Posted 4/25/12 at 11:08am via techcrunch.com
Ark received $250k in Seed funding. (11/1/11)

Posted 11/22/11 at 8:12pm