July 25th, 2011

Atomico, Conway, And Founders Fund Put $10 Million Into Quid; Max Levchin Joins Board

Quid

Quantitative analysis startup Quid is getting a major vote of confidence and $10 million in a seed round from a raft of serious investors. Niklas Zennstrom’s Atomico Ventures, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Endeavour Vision, Infocomm Investments, and Korean investor Charles Lho all invested in the series C financing. (Founders Fund and Lho were already investors. Max… → Read More

September 17th, 2010

Does Quid Have The Most Pretentious Website of Any Startup Ever?

The overly ornate website copy of investment trends startup Quid (tagline: “Mapping the world’s technologies”) has now become a subject on Quora, and is therefore famous enough to warrant objective analysis. So here goes …

First of all I literally spat out my morning coffee when I saw the header “Our Secondary Typeface.” Secondary typeface!? How about a primary business model? → Read More

September 15th, 2010

Quid Emerges From Stealth To Map The World's Technologies

YouNoodle founder Bob Goodson is debuting his newest venture Quid this week, which has been in stealth for the past two years. Quid’s data platform aims to map the world’s technologies, allowing companies to gain more insight on specific sectors and to allow government entities to figure out which emerging technologies can better serve their infrastructure. Backed by The Founders Fund, Quid is now… → Read More