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Quintura confirms funding from early Skype investor
By Vivek | November 14th, 2006 at 03:44 pm ET
I just got an email from Yakov Sadchikov, CEO of Quintura where he confirmed that they have raised a significant amount of venture capital from Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg, ABRT Venture Fund, and the partners of OpenView Venture Partners of Boston. Mangrove Capital was one of the early-stage investors in Skype. This investment is also the first ever made by a Western VC in an Internet company from Russia. I had written about Quintura few days back which provides a visual search engine that works using advanced neural networking techniques
“We have found the team of Mangrove being a visionary investor and very intelligent partner in developing our consumer driven Internet business.” said Yakov Sadchikov, co-founder and CEO of Quintura. “We plan using the venture capital to take the Web by storm and reach millions of web users globally when launching the Quintura visual find engines for various user communities. We are also starting an affiliate program for most popular web-sites and blogs such as Digg, Netscape, and others where they can easily make their current tag clouds very interactive.”
Ever since my post on Quintura, I have been using the search engine and have been very impressed by the speed and quality of their results. Instead of the Google way of searching where you need to come up with the best possible set of keywords to search, Quintura search prompts you to browse results by tags, which lets you discover results you might not usually come across. By simply moving the mouse over different tags, Quintura refreshes the results window to give the new result set. Besides this Quintura algorithm also gives to the tags related to the tag you are on any moment.
Great technology overall.
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