Backed by one of Google’s earliest investors, Diffbot’s Mike Tung is trying to win the information wars by analyzing nearly all of the web—and data hungry corporations like Snapchat and eBay are biting by jillianiles
Share to linkedinisco wanted to provide users of its conferencing system profiles on everyone who signed on to a call—say, where they used to work or if they turned up in a news article. It’s using a Mountain View, California, startup called Diffbot to make that happen.
Businesses in every industry are beefing up their data science teams and using artificial intelligence to model product demand, analyze competitive threats and source new customers. But this AI-powered analysis is only as good as the data that goes into it, and that’s where Diffbot comes in: It promises to provide better data, faster.
Like Google, Diffbot constantly crawls billions of Web pages, but instead of using that index to give people the best links to information, it provides businesses with data that they can then plug into their own analytics tools. He envisioned a search engine that would only deliver concrete answers. Instead of spitting out links where people could find information themselves, he wanted every search to automatically surface either an exact piece of information or a massive dataset for analysis.
Bechtolsheim’s check kicked off $2 million in angel investments and an eventual $10 million Series A led by Felicis Ventures and Chinese internet giant Tencent. The company says it’s currently valued at over $100 million. Diffbot CEO Mike Tung says that the company's goal is to"build the first comprehensive map of all human knowledge."Customers pay Diffbot a monthly fee, with different tiers depending on how much they use the service, ranging from $299 per month to custom pricing for large enterprises. Cisco, for example, uses Diffbot to pull information from news articles about participants in its WebEx conferencing system.
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