Mountain View, CA – January 17, 2007 – Web search company, Kosmix today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Kosmix was handpicked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria – innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
Kosmix and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the digital era, showcasing top innovative private companies that are revolutionizing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.
The AO Media 100 was selected from over a 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO Media 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development.
Kosmix has been pushing the envelope of web technology, since their launch in February 2007. Kosmix’s web categorization technology algorithmically sorts and classifies pages on the Web into tens of thousands of categories and is a platform for many valuable consumer applications. Kosmix’s first application, a multidimensional search engine, helps users explore topics in categories such as health, travel, autos and more. Recently, Kosmix rolled out a new "topic overview page" feature, that automatically creates topic pages based on a user’s search query, populated completely from content found on the web.
"We scoured hundreds of applications we received to vote on the top emerging private technology companies," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "Selected are the companies we think are demonstrating significant market traction or pursuing game-changing technology. We expect these organizations to have a big impact for both New York and Silicon Valley."
"We’re definitely honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn as an emerging technology company" said Venky Harinarayan, cofounder of Kosmix. "We hope that our work at Kosmix will continue to help users easily explore and discover on the Web."
A full list of all the AO Media 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=12031
Kosmix is passionate about harnessing the Web’s intelligence to create valuable consumer applications. Our categorization technology is central to this mission and is unique in its scale and impact. Kosmix’s platform enables consumers to explore and discover topics of interest in categories such as health, travel, autos, and video games. For more information visit us at www.kosmix.com
AlwaysOn Hollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries.
At AlwaysOn Hollywood, our editors will also honor the AO Hollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Hollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase".
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Kosmix Media Contact
Tina Nanez
(650) 938-2300
media@kosmix.com