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Attendi, Inc.

Product Name

Attendi.com

Market Segment

Consumer Software and Services

Funding

Self-funded: $1.25 million initial investment.

Competitors

No direct competitors. Secondary competitors include human-powered search companies such as Mahalo.

Product Description

Attendi, Inc. is the first search engine to search people and not Web pages. It leverages its community of users to gather, categorize, and archive the database of human wisdom through the power of conversation. By integrating a real-time chat tool in its search results, Attendi personifies the Internet, creating a global social network. Its active participants are part of a living search engine. Founded in March 2007, Attendi is privately funded, founded by CEO Drew Rayman and based in New York, N.Y. For more information, please visit www.attendi.com. Attendi has patents pending at the U.S. Patent Office.

Market Opportunity

Attendi is a smart combination of Google, MySpace, Yahoo! Answers and live chat. While there has been no market-sizing research to date for human-powered search, eMarketer predicts that U.S. spending on paid search advertising will grow from $8.29 billion in 2007 to $14.21 billion in 2010.

Demo Says

There’s much talk of “people-powered” search these days and it has its share of fans and detractors. Attendi puts a different spin on the concept, seeding its database entirely with conversations between users. Rather than attempting to take on the entire Web, Attendi.com focuses on people’s passions. You won’t visit the site for the definition of a horse, for example, but it could be your first stop for advice on pursuing a hobby of horse breeding and racing. It’s true wisdom of the crowds and, interestingly enough in this time of community, hasn’t yet been explored by other search engines.


 
Conference

2007 DEMOfall

Show Contact

Kasey Fleisher

Address

433 W. 14th St., Suite 3R
New York,  NY    10014
917-699-9133
FAX: 646-349-1378

Company URL

www.attendi.com

Corporate Officers

Drew Rayman, CEO & Founder

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