Kosmix

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Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they’re looking for.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk.

Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos’ personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions.

Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

Milestones

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• Acquired Cruxlux. (10/19/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 5:19am
• Received $20M in Series D funding. (12/8/08)
  Posted 12/8/08 at 5:27pm
• Kosmix — Kosmix Goes Horizontal (6/25/08)
  Posted 6/25/08 at 9:22am
• Received $10M in Series C funding. (12/07)
  Posted 12/13/07 at 5:33am
• Received $18M in Series B funding. (2006)
  Posted 10/1/08 at 11:22am
• Received $7M in Series A funding. (11/05)
  Posted 12/13/07 at 5:34am
• Anand Rajaraman, Co-Founder added.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am
• Venky Harinarayan, Co-Founder added.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am
• Srinivasan Seshadri, Chief Technology Officer added.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am
• STS Prasad, Vice President, Service Management added.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am
• Michelle Yee Sangster, Vice President, Business Development added.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:56am
• Theresia Ranzetta, Board added.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 10:58am
• Ravi Ranganathan, CFO added.
  Posted 1/29/09 at 9:36am
• Jeff Bezos, Board added.
  Posted 10/19/09 at 8:09pm

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RightHealth

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Sources

1. Kosmix Acquires Cruxlux, The Online Version Of Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. venturebeat.com [edit]
3. Citation Needed [add]
4. Vertical Search Firm Kosmix Raises $10 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Kosmix Goes Horizontal (techcrunch.com) [edit]