April 23rd, 2012

Pinterest Rival Fancy Gets Fancier With “Match By Color” Visual Search

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High-end design, fashion and travel-focused Pinterest rival The Fancy is rolling out several new features today, including a new slideshow option, the addition of four more languages, and a new visual search engine that allows users to search for items with similar colors.

The latter addition, which brings to mind the “search by color” feature over on crafty community Etsy or the new color→ Read More

January 7th, 2011

Disrupt Winner Qwiki Is In The Middle Of Raising A Quick $8 Million

Qwiki, the visual search startup that won the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt last September is in the middle of raising as much as $8 million in a series A financing. According to an SEC filing, it has already sold $5 million worth of the round. Both venture capital firms and individuals are investing. It appears that a large part of the round ($4 million so far) is being taken up by a pooled… → Read More

August 26th, 2010

Kooaba's Reality Augmented With $3 Million Funding

A Swiss startup offering mobile visual search and augmented reality technology, kooaba, landed 3 million in Swiss franks (or about $3 million) venture funding from undisclosed Swiss investors the company’s co-founder and chief executive Herbert Bay reported this morning.

Kooaba was spun out of the Computer Vision Lab at a top science and technology university in Switzerland, ETH Zurich.

The… → Read More