Truveo,

https://www.truveo.com/

Last activity: 14.04.2010

Probably Closed

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13.9K /mo.

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Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Employees

10001+

Mentions in press and media 20

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Jul 17, 2009	AOL Ventures gets new leader to clean, rebuild house	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Former Googler Tim Armstrong is making more moves...
Jul 17, 2009	AOL Ventures gets new leader to clean, rebuild house	Former Googler Tim Armstrong is making more moves to redefine AOL, the struggling and soon-to-be spun off former Time Warner subsidiary that he is now chief executive of. He just named an old business partner, Jon Brod, to run the company’s...
Apr 1, 2009	How Tough Is It Today Being a VC? 10 Questions for Two Early-Stage Stars	Pity the poor venture capitalist. Times were… well, so cushy. Money was flowing, deals were being done in record time, monetization was something one worried about later, and Silicon Valley was bursting at the seams. The sweet smell of weal...
Feb 18, 2009	OVGuide beefs up video search and discovery portal with $5M	OVGuide, a comprehensive video search portal that draws results from sites including Fancast, Hulu, ESPN and Funny or Die, announced today that it raised $5 million in capital all from Baroda Ventures. Based in Beverly Hills, Calif., the co...
Jan 6, 2009	Getting video from the web to your phone	RipCode, a video transcoding solution receives $12.5 million in funding From news to entertainment, someway or another we are all watching video on our smart phones. RipCode, an on demand video transcoding provider announced they received $...
Nov 10, 2008	VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine	It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T’s portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup. VideoCrawler ...
Nov 6, 2008	Video Search Engine Mefeedia Relaunches	When we first reviewed Mefeedia, a video search engine and discovery service, we were somewhat critical of its user interface, but also rated it as one of the best media search engines on the Internet. Today, Mefeedia relaunched with an upd...
Oct 8, 2008	What's appssavvy's value ad?	Appssavvy raises $3.1 million to fund new agency biz around apps Appssavvy just raised $3.1 million to fund its social media agency business. Founder and CEO Chris Cunningham swung by the Vator.tv office to tell us about his service. Appssa...
Aug 18, 2008	Vuclip mobile video search can make any video format play on your phone	Vuclip, a mobile video search service that has been operating under the radar for a year as Blueapple.mobi, has a very cool technology. In 20 seconds or less, Vuclip can take video encoded in any format and convert it on the fly, so that it...
Jun 25, 2008	Specialized search company Kosmix isn’t so specialized anymore	Kosmix, the search company that has built sites around specific topics like health and automobiles, just rolled out a “horizontal” search engine — namely, one that brings the Kosmix approach to any topic you can think of. That may seem like...
Jan 9, 2008	ClipSyndicate Videos Now On Truveo, Bebo, Magnify, and Lingospot	Video clips from local TV news affiliates are making their way onto the Web through a service called ClipSyndicate that’s been in beta for more than a year. The service, which is owned by New York City startup Critical Media, has more than ...
Jun 19, 2007	Truveo Growing 50% Per Month, Says Video Search Becoming More Important	Truveo, which was acquired by AOL in early 2006, is considered to be one of the best video search engines on the Internet. It looks beyond metadata attached to the video file itself and explores the content on the website around the video –...
Apr 24, 2007	CastTV raises $3.1M to launch better video search	Corrected: Motwani is merely an advisor San Francisco’s CastTV, a site that says it can search video better than leading players like Yahoo and Google by turning up Javascript-hidden files and other information, has raised $3.1 million from...
Oct 3, 2006	CastTV Will Revolutionize Video Search	Husband and wife team Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati first met at Stanford, and then founded a company together called Filefish in 1999. They raised $4.6 million in venture funding in 2000, and the company was acquired by Oracle in 2003. Now the...
Jul 24, 2006	Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search, Part 2	Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This is the second in a 2-part series of posts. In our previous p...
Jan 11, 2006	Video search engine company, Truveo, sold — for $50 million!	Wow, you can launch a start-up these days, and in two years sell it for a pretty nifty sum. Truveo, the Burlingame start-up that was launched in January 2004, has been sold to AOL. We’ve heard from a pretty good source that it was $50 milli...
Jan 10, 2006	AOL Buys Video Search Firm Truveo	Augmenting its existing video search technology, AOL on Tuesday announced it has acquired Truveo, which indexes video on the Web using a method called "Visual Crawling." AOL says it was interested in the way Truveo discovers a wid...
Jan 10, 2006	AOL Acquires Truveo	AOL announced the acquisition of media search engine Truveo today. My original profile of Truveo is here. Terms of the deal were not disclosed publicly, but this was not a small deal. Truveo has an innovative way for quickly indexing media ...
Sep 21, 2005	Truveo – Video Search	Company: Truveo Launched: Beta launch on September 14, 2005 Location: Burlingame, CA Truveo is a video search engine that beta-launched a few days ago. Jeff Clavier, an investor, writes about Truveo here. If you are looking for video conten...

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What has the press written about Truveo,?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Truveo,, among them “AOL Ventures gets new leader to clean, rebuild house” (Jul 17, 2009) and “AOL Ventures gets new leader to clean, rebuild house” (Jul 17, 2009).

Is Truveo, still active?

Truveo, is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 14, 2010.