Spock (website)
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| Spock Networks, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California |
| Key people | Jaideep Singh, Co-founder/CEO Jay Bhatti, Co-founder/VP product |
| Website | www.spock.com |
| Type of site | Search engine |
| Registration | optional |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | active |
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Spock is a people search website search engine that indexes people. The name "Spock" is explained with a backronym: "single point of contact (by) keyword."[1] Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, it has "indexed over 100 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records."[2] These records are from publicly available sources, including LinkedIn, XING, MySpace, Friendster, Wikipedia etc. The company maintains that "30% of all Internet searches are people-related"[3].
Spock opened its service to public beta on August 8, 2007.[4]
[edit] Financing
In December 2006, Spock raised $7 million in a Series A round of funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital[5].
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