| Website | chacha.com |
| Blog | blog.chacha.com |
| @chacha | |
| Category | Search |
| Phone | 800.820.0827 |
| Employees | 70 |
| Founded | 12/05 |
| Description | Mobile and Online Answers Service |
| Total | $75M |
| Series A, 11/06 Members of Simon Mall Family | $3M |
| Series B, 10/07 Morton Meyerson Jeff Bezos Scott Jones | $12M |
| Series C, 10/08 | $14M |
| Series D, 6/09 | $16M |
| Series E, 12/09 | $7M |
| Series F, 10/10 VantagePoint Capital Partners Rho Capital Partners | $20M |
| Unattributed, 1/11 Qualcomm Ventures | $3M |
ChaCha is the leading, free real-time answers service that has emerged as the #1 way for advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with the audience of their choice anytime, anywhere. Through its unique “ask-a-smart-friend†platform, ChaCha has answered over one billion questions since launch from more than 32 million unique users per month, and is ranked among comScore’s top 100 websites.
ChaCha delivers human-powered answers via (chacha.com), SMS text (242-242™), iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha™). Working with major brands such as Paramount, NBC Universal Digital, AT&T, Palm, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and presidential political campaigns, ChaCha.com is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast.
ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS as well as Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems; Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer; the Simon family; and Jack Gill, Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
ChaCha - Fast, Free Answers From a Smart Friend
Added: 10/22/10
| Website | partners.chacha.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | mobile-marketing, mobile-advertising, mobile-search |
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).
