| Website | topsy.com |
| @topsy | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 15 |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Description | Social media search |
| Total | $14.9M |
| Series A, 1/08 Scott Banister | $900k |
| Series B, 12/08 BlueRun Ventures Ignition Partners The Founders Fund Scott Banister | $11M |
| Debt, 3/09 Western Technology Investment | $3M |
Topsy, which launched on May 26, 2009, is a real-time search engine, with a focus on social media sites like Twitter. The site’s underlying technology examines popular links as well as the influence of each person citing a link. Topsy augments traditional search engines by finding information that people are talking about.
