Social Search Start-up Mechanical Zoo Gets Angel Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 22, 2008 - 11:09am.

San Francisco - Mechanical Zoo, a social search start-up founded by a number of ex-Google employees, has raised $750,000 in convertible debt from angel investors and is set to launch a beta test of its service next month, CNET News.com reported.

The San Francisco-based company's team includes Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News; former Google business development manager Max Ventilla; and Fritz Schneider, a former application security engineer at Google.

According to the article, the stealth-mode company "is building an application -- rather than a destination site -- that will help people tap into the knowledge of their social circle to find information, such as what movie to see or where to go out on a Friday night."

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