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01/22/2008
SemantiNet raised $1.7 million from Giza, Yossi Vardi, Ronald Cohen and Jeff Pulver
Web mashups information platform development startup SemantiNet has completed a $1.7 million financial round led by Giza venture capital. Leading international and Israeli private investors such as Yossi Vardi, Ronald Cohen, Jeff Pulver, Robert Imershein and Moudi Ben-Shach joined Giza in the round.
SemantiNet is developing an information platform that utilizes Semantic Web concepts with a crowd sourcing approach. SemantiNet’s first consumer application is leveraging semantic web concepts to seamlessly integrate information and services from various websites in order to improve web browsing experience.
The company development is based on unique patent based programming paradigm, hardcore web technologies like Silverlight, Ajax and Linq, and a unique scrum & agile development methodology.
SemantiNet was founded in February 2007 by Tal Keinan, SemantiNet CEO, and Tal Muscal, the company CTO. Prior to founding SemantiNet, Keinan was a member of the Risk Department of Morgan Stanley, and Muscal served as a developer at Go Networks and senior software developer at IDF.
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21:05 Posted in Content Delivery | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this | Tags: Tal Keinan, Tal Muscal, SemantiNet, Giza, Yossi Vardi, Ronald Cohen and Jeff Pulver
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Hi,
As the founder of SemantINet, I wanted to thank you for blogging about us. I look forward to sharing more with you and your readers in the near future.
Hope you joined our beta program!
Tal Keinan
Posted by: Tal Keinan | 01/27/2008