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Mountain View Headquarters

444 Castro Street, Suite 109

Mountain View, CA 94041

Tel: (650) 938 - 2300

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582 Market Street, Suite 600

San Francisco, CA 94104

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What People Are Saying

  • How do you create breadth and depth in content pages and make it a satisfying user experience is a big and hard problem... Kosmix has firmly established the lead in how this is going to happen.

    Jonathan Miller, Former CEO of America Online

  • I use Kosmix as a starting point to explore great content. It gives me a snapshot of any topic where I can check out photos, videos, news and blogs, all on one page...

    Anne D'Angelo

  • Kosmix shows me the latest from my favorite bands, cool destinations for my next vacation and what's hot in fashion right now. I get the inside scoop on everything I love, all in one place...

    Amy Sweeney

 
 

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Kosmix Executive Team

  • Venky Harinarayan
    Venky Harinarayan
  • Anand Rajaraman
    Anand Rajaraman
  • Srinivasan 'Sesh' Seshadri
    Srinivasan 'Sesh' Seshadri
  • Sri Subramaniam
    Sri Subramaniam
  • Michelle Yee Sangster
    Michelle Yee Sangster
  • Peter Foster
    Peter Foster
  • Ravi N. Raj
    Ravi N. Raj
  • STS Prasad
    STS Prasad

Venky Harinarayan

Venky Harinarayan

Co-founder

Venky Harinarayan and his business partner Anand Rajaraman co-founded Kosmix in 2005 with the vision to connect people to the information that makes a difference in their lives. Together with Anand, Venky developed the first ecommerce search engine, Junglee, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998 for $250 million. At Amazon, Venky and Anand created the company’s search and marketplace business. In addition to Kosmix, Venky is a principal at Cambrian Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Indian Institute of Technology.


 
 

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Featured Content

Kosmix Blog

The future of search »

December 11, 2008

Posted by Digvijay Lamba

November 30th, 1900

Having read of the recent death of the Irish writer Oscar Wilde, a student at Harvard University is looking for information on his life and his achievements. How does he access this information? He looks at the library catalogue, skims through newspapers and magazines, and writes letters to his colleagues. After a few weeks of research he publishes a tribute to the life and works of Oscar Wilde.

August 5th, 2000

A century later, having read of the recent death of English actor and writer Sir Alec Guinness, a student at Harvard University is looking for information on his life and his achievements. The Wikipedia movement has not yet started and the researcher turns to the recently formed google.com search engine. After a few hours of searching for information, posting on bulletin boards and groups, and browsing websites dedicated to Sir Alec Guinness he is ready with a tribute to the life and works of Sir Alec Guinness.

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Anand's Blog (Datawocky)

Kosmix Adds Rocketfuel to Power Voyage of Exploration

December 8, 2008
Scootin'

Scootin'

Today I’m delighted to share some fantastic news. Kosmix has raised $20 million in new financing to power our growth. Even more than the amount of financing, I’m especially proud that the lead investor in this round is Time Warner, the world’s largest media company. Our existing investors Lightspeed, Accel, and DAG participated in the round as well. The Kosmix team also is greatly strengthened by the addition of Ed Zander as investor and strategic advisor. In an amazing career that spans Sun Microsystems and Motorola, Ed has repeatedly demonstrated leadership that grew good ideas into great products and businesses. His counsel will be invaluable as we take Kosmix to the next level as a business.

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Rachel Lam, Time Warner