May 26th, 2010

Mobile App Recommender Appsaurus Raises $850K From Mitch Kapor, Chris Sacca And Others

Hello, Chair, the company that develops a social app recommendation engine within an iPhone app, has raised $850,000 in funding from Harrison Metal Capital, Mitch Kapor, Chris Sacca, and Wilson Sonsini. The startup previously raised money from Y Combinator and David Parker.

Hello, Chair’s Appsaurus competes with the Apple Genius feature, serving as recommendation service for mobile apps on the… → Read More

December 30th, 2009

Appsaurus Looks To Outsmart Apple's App Store Genius

A few months ago, Apple finally released a Genius feature for the App Store — something it had needed badly ever since the number of applications available spiraled into the tens of thousands (it’s now at around 120,000). The new Genius feature recommends applications that Apple thinks you’ll like based on your past choices, but it isn’t perfect. And Appsaurus, a new iPhone app launching… → Read More