Kosmix

OVERVIEW

Website: http://www.kosmix.com/
Blog: http://blog.kosmix.com/
Twitter: @kosmix

Description:
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site 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.

Founded: 2005
Ownership: Private
Category: Consumer Web
Employees: 50-100

Total funding: $55M

Our review of Kosmix: http://bit.ly/bMKOh2

RECENT NEWS

October 19, 2009 Kosmix acquired Cruxlux.

March 1, 2010 Kosmiz has access to Twitter’s Firehose

KEY PEOPLE

Venky Harinarayan, Co-founder
Anand Rajaraman, Co-founder @anand_raj
Sri Subramaniam, VP Engineering
Ravi N. Raj, VP Products
STS Prasad, VP Service Management @stsprasad
Michelle Yee Sangster, VP Business Development
Sabrina Ellis, VP Product
Travis Adlman, VP Finance

CONTACT

Address:

Mountain View Headquarters
444 Castro Street, Suite 109
Mountain View, CA 94041

San Francisco Office
The Hobart Building
582 Market Street, Suite 805
San Francisco, CA 94104

Phone:
(650) 938-2300

Email:
info@kosmix.com