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Websitechacha.com
Blogblog.chacha.com
Twitter@chacha
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Phone800.820.0827
Employees60
Founded12/05
DescriptionMobile answers service

Offices

Carmel, USA
14550 Clay Terrace Blvd.
Suite 130
Carmel, IN, 46032
USA

People

Co-Founder, CEO, Chairman
Director
Director
Director
Director

Former People

President & Co-Founder

Funding

Total$69M
Series A, 1/07
Bezos Expeditions
Jeff Bezos
$6M
Series B, 11/07
Indiana's 21st Century Technology Fund
Morton Meyerson
$10M
Series C, 1/09
$30M
Unattributed, 3/09
Scott Jones
Morton Meyerson
Simon Properties
$12M
Series D, 7/09
$4M
Series E, 12/09
$7M

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ChaCha

ChaCha is a free mobile answers service for people on the go. ChaCha allows people with any mobile phone – from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones – to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes. With ChaCha, answers are available when you need them… anytime, anywhere.

Milestones

  • Check
    ChaCha — ChaCha named in Lead411's Hottest Companies in the Midwest list (7/21/10)
    Posted 8/4/10 at 1:06am via lead411.com
  • Dollar
    ChaCha received $7M in Series E funding. (12/23/09)
    Posted 12/23/09 at 11:37am via sec.gov
  • Dollar
    ChaCha received $4M in Series D funding. (7/23/09)
    Posted 7/23/09 at 9:11pm via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    ChaCha received $12M in Unattributed funding. (3/09)
    Posted 3/17/09 at 5:43pm via chacha.com
  • Dollar
    ChaCha received $30M in Series C funding. (1/09)
    Posted 1/26/09 at 11:30am via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    ChaCha received $10M in Series B funding. (11/1/07)
    Posted 11/14/07 at 5:45am
  • Dollar
    ChaCha received $6M in Series A funding. (1/1/07)
    Posted 8/11/07 at 3:07am via techcrunch.com
  • Check
    ChaCha added Scott Jones as Co-Founder, CEO, Chairman. (12/05)
    Posted 10/17/08 at 5:43am
  • Check
    ChaCha added Rod Canion as Director.
    Posted 12/23/09 at 11:39am
  • Check
    ChaCha added Ian Trumpower as Director.
    Posted 12/23/09 at 11:39am
  • Check
    ChaCha added Brad Bostic as President & Co-Founder.
    Posted 8/11/07 at 2:48am
  • Check
    ChaCha added Jack Gill as Director.
    Posted 12/23/09 at 11:39am
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    ChaCha added Tom Kelly as Director.
    Posted 12/23/09 at 11:39am

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ChaCha Answers

Websitechacha.com
StageLive
Launch DateDecember, 2005
Tags search

ChaCha guided search provided a guided search session for desktop users. The service was discontinued in favor of merging it with their Text (SMS) query search in April 2008.

ChaCha screenshot
Above: ChaCha Answers Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

ChaCha mobile search

Websitechacha.com

ChaCha mobile search uses paid human guides to answer questions sent via SMS text message in conversational English. The service matches queries by sending them to the most knowledgeable guides in that topic, who then answer back via text message.

The mobile search model is now used for ChaCha’s desktop queries as well, whereas ChaCha’s original model used human guides to search with users in a chat-like session. The previous model was discontinued in favor of the universal mobile search model in April 2008. The new model also includes a voice search service that can be queried from a mobile phone via a toll free number (800.2CHACHA). The standard SMS text id is also ‘CHACHA’ (242 242).

ChaCha screenshot
Above: ChaCha mobile search
Uploaded: 4/1/08
ChaCha screenshot
Above: ChaCha 2008
Uploaded: 1/3/09

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Sources

  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. Citation Needed [add]
  3. Wow. ChaCha Is Raising Another $30 Million (Update: They Already Did (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. ChaCha Raises $12M in March 2009 (partners.chacha.com) [edit]
  5. ChaCha Never Lets Me Down, Even When They Let Me Down. They Raise $4 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  7. LEAD411 LAUNCHES "HOTTEST COMPANIES IN THE MIDWEST" AWARDS (lead411.com) [edit]
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