Seedcamp Graduate Kwaga Raises $1.55M For ‘Email Assistant’ WriteThat.Name

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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
kwaga

Kwaga, a Paris, France-based startup that specializes in tools to make email ‘smarter’ by leveraging semantic technology, has raised $1.55 million in Series A funding. The company, which received seed funding from Seedcamp and Kima Ventures after its founding in 2008, raised the money from unnamed private investors.

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Company: Kwaga
Website: Kwaga.com
Launch Date: December 31, 2008
Funding: €2.15M

Kwaga leverages 60+ combined years of experience in applied computational linguistics, semantic technology, and Email, and has received over 2 Million euros in funding to date. Kwaga’s flagship product, WriteThatname, is an email assistant that automatically updates and creates contacts in address books and CRMs. Available for Gmail, Google Apps, Outlook, and Lotus notes, HighRise and Salesforce, this service analyzes the contents of present and past emails to extract the most current contact information and keep it continually...

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