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Enswers

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Founded in early 2007, Enswers Inc is an advanced audiovisual search technology company.

Enswers has developed revolutionary audio/video signal processing and large-scale clustering technologies that redefine media search. Our products include the Enswer.me video search engine, Soompi Korean entertainment portal, Platform-V content distribution platform, Imideo image-to-video search and playback B2C service, Automatic Content Recognition for connected devices, and a suite of products online and offline multimedia management.

Our mission is to deliver experiences and technology that connect people to media. Enswers has developed a suite of multimedia search, content recognition, content monitoring, and contextual video advertising products that are based on our patent-pending VideoFuse audio/video signal processing and large-scale clustering technologies.

Enswers is composed of computer science graduates and PhDs from the top technical universities in Asia and the US, including Stanford University, KAIST, and Seoul National University. The company has received 3 rounds of investments from Softbank Ventures, KT Capital, Stonebridge Capital and Bon Angels. Headquartered in Seoul Korea, Enswers was recently acquired by KT (Korea Telecome) in December 2011 and operates as an independent subsidiary.

Recent Milestones

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  Enswers added Youngho Yoon as CFO. (1/12/12)
  Posted 8/22/12 at 7:37pm
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  Enswers — Acquired by KT (Korea Telecom). (12/1/11)
  Posted 6/19/12 at 8:59pm via privateequitykorea.com
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  Enswers received $4.5M in Series B funding. (12/1/09)
  Posted 8/8/11 at 10:35pm
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  Enswers received $1.6M in Series A funding. (9/1/08)
  Posted 8/8/11 at 10:35pm via co.kr
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  Enswers added JP Lee as CSO. (4/4/07)
  Posted 8/8/11 at 10:35pm
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  Enswers added Jaehyung Lee as CTO. (4/4/07)
  Posted 8/22/12 at 7:37pm
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  Enswers added Jack Kilyoun Kim as CEO. (4/4/07)
  Posted 8/8/11 at 10:35pm
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  Enswers added Sherman Li as President of Enswers America. (4/4/07)
  Posted 8/8/11 at 10:35pm
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  Enswers received $300k in Angel funding. (4/1/07)
  Posted 8/8/11 at 10:35pm

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