Kosmix Lands $20 Million for Web Search by Topic

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 9, 2008 - 10:16am.

Mountain View, Calif. - Kosmix, the developer of a search engine that organizes the Web by topic, has raised $20 million in its fourth round of venture capital financing, led by Time Warner Investments.

Previous backers Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and DAG Ventures also participated, along with former Motorola CEO Ed Zander.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Kosmix claims 11 million unique visits per month to its site.

The company also on Tuesday launched a beta of its service, which uses a categorization engine in development for four years to automatically arrange each set of unique results into "a magazine-style dashboard of relevant news, images, videos, communities, reviews, expert opinions, shopping tools, widgets and links."

Related Links:
http://www.kosmix.com/pr/pr_081209

http://blog.kosmix.com/press-stuff/kosmix-adds-rocketfuel/

http://www.kosmix.com

Published in DMW Daily, December 9, 2008

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Kudos to Kosmix for landing

Submitted by RoJo (not verified) on December 9, 2008 - 4:03pm.

Kudos to Kosmix for landing funding, and for its efforts to put a new face on search. $20MM is nothing to scoff at, particularly in today¹s turbulent economy. But you should check out another search fledgling - NeXplore (www.NeXplore.com) NeXplore is fighting the same good fight to change the face of search, but is faring significantly better than Kosmix, Cuil, Viewzi, Mahalo, Searchme, Cooliris, etc. NeXplore traffic has been steadily climbing and is now in the neighborhood of 4M unique visitors/month. Don¹t take my word for it, check out NeXplore vs the others on Compete.com.