Wize.

http://wize.com/

Last activity: 13.08.2015

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Overview

Location

United States, California, Princeton-by-the-Sea

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$4M

Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 19

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Aug 13, 2015	The future of SEO: Apple vs. Google	Over the past few years, many top startups have elected to go mobile first and build app only experiences. While some have had success, mobile first companies such as Uber and Hotel Tonight have missed out on the large opportunity of SEO. S...
Jul 8, 2010	Executive brief: NexTag buys Wize	Want to know more about Wize, the startup NexTag snapped up? Congratulations to Wize! The consumer product recommendation engine was acquired by NexTag, a comparison-shopping firm, for an undisclosed sum. You can check out Wize's announceme...
Jul 7, 2010	Comparison Shopping Site NexTag Acquires Product Review Engine Wize	Comparison shopping site NexTag has acquired product recommendation research engine Wize. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Launched in 2006, Wize lets consumers search for reviews on electronics, home goods, video games,...
Dec 16, 2009	Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs...
Dec 16, 2009	Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy	Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs. The engine asks users their ideal price as well as the importance of several factors including carrier,...
Sep 29, 2009	Wize wants to "personalize" product research	Startup relaunches product research engine with a focus on user generated reviews and SEO Back in the days before the Web, when researching a product many turned to magazines like Consumer Reports to get the information they needed before m...
Sep 29, 2009	Wize Redesigns Product Review Search Engine	Product reviews, both from users and experts, are an integral part of the shopping process. Generally, I scour the web for both negative and positive reviews, across multiple sites before purchasing ant type of gadget. Product recommendatio...
Mar 16, 2009	The deep Web and the future of finding things	The discovery landscape Wize Deep Web A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe...
Apr 24, 2008	ReviewGist.com Collates and Snips Reviews	Sites like ReviewGist are great for consumers but not so great for gadget bloggers. By collecting a number of reviews and adding on meta-date like price and features, they automatically create collections of data what are actually quite use...
Apr 24, 2008	ReviewGist.com Collates and Snips Product Reviews	Sites like ReviewGist are great for consumers but not so great for gadget bloggers. By collecting a number of reviews and adding on meta-date like price and features, they automatically create collections of data what are actually quite use...
Sep 25, 2007	The Roizen Report: Making Sense of Millions of Voices	Words cannot describe the degree to which I hate shopping. Over-stimulation is probably at the root of my shopping aversion. There are too many choices and too many questions that go unanswered, which invariably raises the possibility for f...
Jul 19, 2007	Consumer product reviews: here, there, everywhere	Until a year ago or so, it was hard to find objective customer reviews of some products online. Amazon had a fair amount of material, but has always been focused on books, movies, CDs, and electronics. What if you wanted to know about a sof...
Jun 22, 2007	Supernova: Connected Innovators	This afternoon at Supernova thirteen companies selected by TechCrunch and Supernova, from 130 applicants, presented at the Connected Innovators Session. The companies presented to a panel of experts including Mike Arrington from TechCrunch,...
May 21, 2007	Meet the 2007 Connected Innovators	Kevin Werbach and I are pleased to announce this year’s finalists to present at the Supernova 2007 Conference, on Thursday, June 21, 3:30pm – 5:30pm, at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco. We had a record number of submissions th...
May 2, 2007	Review Of Product Research Engine Wize – Needs Integrated User Experience	Following my analysis of TheFind, a lifestyle shopping service, in this post I will explore Wize – product research engine. Note that I have also reviewed the business story of Wize on my personal blog. So now let’s take a look at their act...
Jan 22, 2007	Wize.com, the search engine that ranks products	Wize.com, a San Mateo start-up, has launched yet another search engine for consumer electronics and other goods. Wize’s promise hangs on a single, skinny thread: Its “Wize Rank” concept. Wize Rank is a numeric ranking of products (from zero...
Jan 21, 2007	Four Month Old Wize Gets $4 Million	Silicon Valley based Wize is a site that tracks expert and user product reviews across the Internet and churns them through an algorithm to create a single, 1-100 “WizeRank.” We first profiled Wize and some of its competititors late last ye...
Sep 28, 2006	An aggregate review of aggregate review services	Product review search engine Retrevo was selected to launch at DEMO yesterday and it’s pretty cool. We’ve written about competitor ViewScore here before and also launched this month is yet another similar service that just launched called W...

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FAQ about Wize.

How much funding has Wize. raised?

Wize. has raised $4M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Wize.?

Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning Wize., among them “The future of SEO: Apple vs. Google” (Aug 13, 2015) and “Executive brief: NexTag buys Wize” (Jul 8, 2010).

Is Wize. still active?

Yes, Wize. is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 13, 2015.