Tech Company Financing Transactions
Cuill Funding Round
Madrone Capital Partners and private investors participated in a $25 million Series B funding round for Cuill. This VC investment round was announced on 4/15/2008.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
4/15/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$25,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors
Madrone Capital Partners (Lead Investor)
Proceeds Purpose
"We are thrilled to receive additional funding," said Anna Patterson, President and co-founder. "I'm very proud of the experienced team we have recruited and the board we have assembled. Our goal is to offer a dramatically improved search experience and we look forward to sharing Cuill with everyone on the Web."
Company Information
Company Status
Out of Business
Industry
Internet & IoT
Mailing Address
66 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
Phone
Website
Email Address
Overview
Cuil was a stealth search engine startup which claims that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google. Cuil has told potential investors that their indexing costs will be 1/10th of Google's, based on new search architectures and relevance methods.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Tom Costello
Founder
Russell Power
President
Anna Patterson
VP - Finance
Seval Ozveren
VP - General Counsel
Pete Szymanski
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