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Ranker

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Ranker is a consumer web platform and interest graph play based on the easily understood and highly engaging concept of rankings and voting. Ranker harnesses the “wisdom of crowds” to provide credible answers to questions like “what are the best ?”. Visitors can vote on or rank topics with various levels of engagement, and Ranker’s technology aggregates this interest graph data into CrowdRankings such as The Best TV Shows. Ranker utilizes semantic, linked datasets to power this connected listmaking for users across all topics, and has partnered with Freebase, Factual, and other sources of “big data” for this. The ranker.com site launched to the public August 2009 and has seen solid traffic and user growth every month. In the future Ranker will be porting its ranking technology to other sites and platforms.

Ranker’s platform is not confined to a specific vertical and is flexible enough to be used for blogging, shopping, polls, publishing, social networking, even organization.

Recent Milestones

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  Ranker — Ranker, the list-based platform for ranking and voting on any topic, announces that Mani Dhillon has joined the Los Angeles-based company as Chief Operating Officer. Dhillon was most recently the GM of Urbanspoon. While at Urbanspoon, Dhillon grew unique (1/20/12)
  Posted 1/20/12 at 4:15pm via socaltech.com
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  Ranker added Mani Dhillon as Chief Operating Officer. (1/1/12)
  Posted 1/23/12 at 1:35pm
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  Ranker added Michael Jones as Board. (10/1/11)
  Posted 1/23/12 at 1:37pm
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  Ranker — Ranker wishes to announce that Michael Jones joined the company's board of directors last fall. Jones is currently the CEO of Santa Monica-based studio Science; he was previously CEO of MySpace, Tsavo Media and CEO/Founder of Userplane, which was acquired (10/1/11)
  Posted 1/20/12 at 4:17pm via socaltech.com
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  Ranker received $1.3M in Series A funding. (4/4/11)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 9:03am via techcrunch.com
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  Ranker added Joel Yarmon as Board. (4/4/11)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 2:08pm
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  Ranker added Tony Adam as Advisor. (6/1/10)
  Posted 12/21/10 at 3:01pm
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  Ranker received $800k in Venture Round funding. (2/4/10)
  Posted 7/22/10 at 10:55am
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  Ranker — Seed B Angel Round $750K (2/4/10)
  Posted 2/5/10 at 8:45am via socaltech.com
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  Ranker received $1M in Seed funding. (6/1/08)
  Posted 3/31/09 at 9:51am via thealarmclock.com
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  Ranker added Clark Benson as CEO/Founder.
  Posted 3/31/09 at 9:49am

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Ranker Homepage
Uploaded: 10/27/12

Sources

1. Stealth Mode Ranker Raises $1M in Seed (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
2. EDGAR [edit]
3. Ranker Lands $1.3 Million From Tim Draper And Others, Tries To Rank *Everything* (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Ranker Gets $750K (socaltech.com) [edit]
Ranker Hires Mani Dhillon as Chief Operating Officer (socaltech.com) [edit]
Michael Jones joins Ranker's board of directors. (socaltech.com) [edit]