Twiggle
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| Search Engine | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | E-commerce, Natural language processing, artificial intelligence,Internet |
| Founded 📆 | 2014 |
| Founders 👔 | Dr. Amir Konigsberg and Dr. Adi Avidor |
Area served 🗺️ | |
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Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www.twiggle.com |
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Twiggle was a technology company that uses machine learning and natural language processing to develop search technologies for e-commerce sites.[1] In March 2017, Twiggle announced the debut of its Semantic API, its inaugural product, which gives online retailers the ability to enhance their existing search capabilities by adding semantic understanding to their existing search engine.[2]
History[edit]
Twiggle was founded in 2014 by Dr. Amir Konigsberg and Dr. Adi Avidor.[3] Prior to launching the company, Konigsberg worked on human machine interfaces for autonomous vehicles at General Motors. At Google, Avidor led search projects at Google such as Spell Checker, Calculator, and Google Now.
In April 2016, Twiggle obtained a $12.5 Series A investment led by Naspers, a multinational internet and media group whose portfolio includes e-commerce giants Flipkart, Souq.com (acquired by Amazon in March 2017 for $580 million), and Tencent (SEHK 700). Yahoo! Japan, State of Mind Ventures, and Sir Ronald Cohen also participated in the round. In May 2016, the company raised an additional $5 million from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.[4][5] In May 2017, Twiggle raised an additional $15 million lead by MizMaa Ventures and Korea Investment Partners.[6][7]
Twiggle shut down in 2019. [8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Kharpal, Arjun (2016-08-18). "The future of search: Start-ups look to take on Google with artificial intelligence". Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ↑ "Twiggle offers plug-and-play semantic search to online retailers". Search Engine Land. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ↑ "Twiggle | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ↑ Lee, U-Jin (2016-05-31). "Alibaba (BABA) Stock Climbs, Investing in Israel Tech Firm Twiggle". TheStreet. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ↑ Shu, Catherine. "E-commerce search developer Twiggle adds Alibaba as an investor | TechCrunch". Retrieved 2017-08-20.
- ↑ Shu, Catherine. "Twiggle raises $15 million in new funding to make e-commerce search more intuitive | TechCrunch". Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ↑ Popomaronis, Tom. "This Startup Just Raised $15M To Make Your Online Shopping Experience Smarter (Much Smarter)". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ↑ Cohen, Sagi. "From 90 to 10 employees: The Israeli Twiggle fired most of its employees and changed direction". The Marker. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
External links[edit]
- Twiggle website
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