likeness.com

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App Store Best of 2012, Editor's Choice 2013 - Instant restaurant recommendations for you, not the crowd.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, Los Altos

Total raised

$20M

Funding Rounds 2

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Jul 20, 2011	Funding round	$5M

Mentions in press and media 22

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Feb 7, 2014	OpenTable buys restaurant recommendation service Ness	Company paid $17.2 million in cash, Ness team will come to work at OpenTable I have found OpenTable to be pretty useful for when I know what restaurant I want to go to, or where I am going to be. Honestly, I have never found to be any good ...
Feb 6, 2014	OpenTable Buys Ness For $17.3M To Beef Up Mobile And Restaurant Recommendations	Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable today reported quarterly earnings of $52.3 million and used the day to put out some other news: the company has acquired Ness Computing, makers of the personalized restaurant recommendations app Nes...
Dec 9, 2013	Zofari Debuts A “Pandora For Places” On iPhone & Android	Some local recommendation apps tell you where you can go to eat, dine or be entertained, as rated by things like proximity, price or user reviews. Others aim to offer a more personalized experience, helping you find places you would actuall...
Nov 21, 2013	Restaurant Recommendation Engine Ness Now Helps Groups Decide Where To Eat, Adds Support For Web & Android Users Too	Restaurant recommendations service Ness has been steadily improving upon on its technology which helps you find the best place to eat based on your unique likes and dislikes, a place’s popularity, time of day and other factors. Earlier this...
Aug 16, 2013	Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better	In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the ne...
Apr 18, 2013	Where’s Twitter Music For Android? Why Today’s Tech Companies Are Still Going iOS First	Where is Twitter Music for Android? With today’s launch of Twitter’s new music discovery platform, the company has again made a move to sideline the install base of around half of the U.S.’s smartphone audience by failing to deliver a nativ...
Apr 17, 2013	With Its Biggest Update Yet, Ness Debuts Instant, Personalized Restaurant Recommendations, Says Events, Nightlife Are Next	Ness, the restaurant recommendations app that uses social data combined with machine-learning techniques to offer personalized suggestions, has released the next major version of its application today, now focused on what it’s calling “inst...
Apr 10, 2013	How The Internet Will Tell You What To Eat, Where To Go, And Even Who To Date	I get asked what the next big thing is a lot. I haven’t had a good answer in a while. So much of what I see in technology feels iterative, or worse, derivative, especially in the social Web. All the interesting niches have been mapped out. ...
Aug 22, 2012	Ness Computing Completes $15M Series B Funding	Ness Computing, a Los Altos, California-based startup that is making search personal, has completed a $15m Series B funding. The round was led by SingTel Innov8, with participation from American Express Ventures and an affiliate of the LeFr...
Aug 22, 2012	Ness Computing Inks $15M Series B	LOS ALTOS, CA, Startup that is making search personal, today announced the completion of a $15M round of Series B funding led by SingTel Innov8. >> Click here for more funding data on Ness Computing >> To export Ness Computi...
Aug 21, 2012	Ness Nabs $15M From AmEx And SingTel To Expand Data-Driven, Personalized Search To Other Verticals	Ness Computing, a startup that has developed a highly personalized, data-driven search engine, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by SingTel Innov8 with American Express Ventures participating in the round. Ness previously raise...
Jan 18, 2012	Ness, The Restaurant Discovery App, Adds Crucial Mapping Feature	I made heavy use of Ness‘s restaurant-finding iOS app during a recent trip through the East Coast, because lots of places are still sadly short on Yelp reviews, and I wanted a quick way to find the best local spots to eat. While I got some ...
Dec 13, 2011	Google acquires Clever Sense, maker of Alfred	Clever Sense, makers of restaurant recommendation app Alfred, courted by both Groupon and Google Google, in all its wisdom and might, announced Wednesday its purchase of Clever Sense, the makers of a mobile restaurant recommendation app cal...
Dec 8, 2011	Ness Adds Social Sharing To Its Mobile Restaurant Recommendation App	Ness Computing has just launched a new version of its restaurant search engine app that takes its existing recommendations technology and adds in new sharing services. Yes, there are plenty of restaurant recommendations apps out there, and ...
Dec 8, 2011	Ness, the iPhone app that tells you where to eat, hooks up with Facebook	What’s for dessert? Turn to three month-old Ness for the answer, and its lovely-looking iPhone app will find you the best nearby spots, suited to your exact tastes. Today the application received its first update, and it now further persona...
Dec 8, 2011	Ness, the iPhone app that tells you where to eat, hooks up with Facebook	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. What’s for dessert? Turn to three month-old Ness for the answer, and its lovely-looking iPhone app will find you the best nearby spots,...
Sep 10, 2011	The Fragmented Mobile Information Race	Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’...
Aug 25, 2011	Ness Serves Up Their First Personal Search App Catering To Restaurant Discovery	Last night I went out to dinner. But I didn’t pick where I was going, Ness did. The place was good. Score one for Ness. We previously covered Ness Computing in July, talking about the technology that would power their eventual apps (as well...
Jul 20, 2011	Ness Computing Raises $5M in Series A Financing	Ness Computing, a Silicon Valley-based maker of a mobile search app that reflects each person’s unique tastes, preferences and personality, raised $5m in Series A financing. The round was led by Vinod Khosla and Ramy Adeeb of Khosla Venture...
Jul 20, 2011	Ness grabs $5M for personalized search engine	The company gets support from Khosla Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, and Bullpen Ness Computing, a stealth startup that’s developing a unique new personalized search service, announced late Tuesday that it has raised $5 mi...
Jul 19, 2011	With $5 Million In Their Pockets, Ness Has Quietly Built A Subjective Search Engine	For the past 18 months, Ness Computing has been very quietly working on some new technology that they believe will be the next big thing in search. It’s a new, highly personalized search engine that they hope to launch in the coming weeks. ...

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FAQ about likeness.com

How much funding has likeness.com raised?

likeness.com has raised $20M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has likeness.com raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of likeness.com, among them a funding round of $5M on Jul 20, 2011.

What has the press written about likeness.com?

Parsers VC has collected 22 articles mentioning likeness.com, among them “OpenTable buys restaurant recommendation service Ness” (Feb 7, 2014) and “OpenTable Buys Ness For $17.3M To Beef Up Mobile And Restaurant Recommendations” (Feb 6, 2014).

Is likeness.com still active?

Yes, likeness.com is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 21, 2014.