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Answers Corp.
Answers.com
- Conference
- DEMOfall 09
- Market Segment
- Consumer Software and Services
- Funding Amount
- More than $50,000,000
- Funding Round
- Series A
- Funding Details
- Angels: Mort Meyerson, Mark Tebbe, Yossi Vardi, Ron Conway, Robin Neustein, John Sculley, Bob Lessin VCs: Redpoint, Dawntreader, Israel Seed, Garage.com, Highland IPO: public
- Competitors
- Yahoo! Answers, Answerbag.
- Product Description
- Answers.com provides one-stop answers about anything, combining the worlds best licensed and user-generated content. You can ask, answer, edit or collaborate on answers in thousands of categories. A fact-finder's gold mine, Answers.com harnesses over 250 reference sources, community and a wiki database with over 5 million answers. Our goal is to bring you the best answers on the Web, quickly and conveniently.
- Market Opportunity
- We serve a broad horizontal market for simple, trusted answers in thousands of categories, with a wiki collaboration twist. Considering the millions of questions waiting to be answered, and todays long-tail phenomenon and search-based ecosystem, the revenue opportunity is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- DEMO Says
- Social content plus search equals Web 2.0 as we know it. In recent years start-ups and large corporations alike have modified and enhanced this ecosystem to bring us next steps. It didn't take long for us to realize that the 2.0 world was just the beginning and that the door was wide open for start-ups like Answers.com to make their mark. Bob Rosenschein's highly successful start-up follows recent trends in aggregation to produce the world's best Q&A site, one that takes on all others by integrating the depth of ReferenceAnswers with the breadth of WikiAnswers. Still have questions? We have Answers.com.
- Contact
- Renee Blodgett
- renee@blodgettcomm.com
- Company Address
-
237 W. 35th St., Suite 1101
New York, NY 10001 - Primary Phone
- 646-502-4777
- Primary Fax
- 646-502-4778
- URL
- www.answers.com
- Officer One
- Robert S. Rosenschein - Chairman & CEO
