29/11/2013: UPDATE AND DISCLOSURE: FINSMES HAD ALREADY COVERED THIS NEWS ON OCTOBER 1ST 2013: Algolia Raises $1.5M in /Seed Funding
Algolia, a Paris, France-based provider of a solution that speed up on-site or in-app search, raised €1.5m in seed funding.
Backers included Point Nine Capital, Alven Capital and Index Ventures.
Founded in October of 2012 by CEO Nicolas Dessaigne and CTO Julien Lemoine, Algolia provides a SaaS search API for developers who look for a solution to deliver real-time, typo-tolerant and location aware search in their applications and websites.
It runs more than 4M queries per day, mostly in USA and Europe.
Algolia is a member of Paris-based accelerator TheFamily and is currently hiring ([email protected]).
FinSMEs
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