Open Text Buys Up Content Analysis Startup Nstein Technologies For $34 Million

Leena Rao

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Monday, February 22nd, 2010


Enterprise content management juggernaut Open Text has bought content analysis startup Nstein Technologies for $34 million. Nstein’s Text Mining Engine helps businesses centralize, understand and manage content through semantic and text analysis.

For example, Nstein powers the backend of The Financial Times’ semantic search engine, called Newssift, that indexes about 4,000 business news sources, from online newspapers and blogs to news portals and research sites.

Open Text’s digital media solution help its customers manage rich-media content, so Nstein’s technology should boost Open Text’s existing offerings. Last year, Open Text, which is a publicly traded company bought up 3-D interface innovator Vizible.

Company: OpenText
Website: opentext.com
Launch Date: October 6, 1991
IPO: February 2, 1996, NASDAQ:OTEX

Open Text Corporation (Open Text) is an independent company providing enterprise content management (ECM) software solutions. The Company’s Open Text ECM Suite brings together the content management capabilities needed to manage various types of enterprise content, including business documents, vital records, Web content, digital assets (images, audio and video), e-mail, forms and reports, while aiming to foster team collaboration with project and community workspaces, forums, blogs, wikis, and real-time instant messaging and collaboration. The Open Text ECM Suite also...

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