OpenSearchServer, a Vaujours, France-based company that provides an Open Source Enterprise Search tool, has raised €300k in funding.
Investors include Kima Ventures, and business angels Jacques-Antoine Granjon, CEO of vente-privee.com, Fabrice Grinda, CEO of olx.com and Jose Marin, CEO of Serendipity.
The company intends to use the funds to build its team (http://www.open-search-server.com/jobs) and expand marketing efforts.
Founded by CTO Emmanuel Keller and CEO Raphael Perez, OpenSearchServer allows the development of highly-advanced applications using index and full text algorithms.
The tool, which has been downloaded by 40 000 users in more than 25 countries to date, offers a set of features to all sizes of companies, for easing access to increasing volumes of data, enabling the creation of any kind of search applications: Web search (internet, intranet, extranet), desktop and networked search, portable search for distributing CD/DVD.
FinSMEs
01/07/2011