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Ark is a modern people search engine.

· 30% of all online searches are people searches.

· Ark enables users to search for new friends, find old classmates, and expanding their professional networks, or even their friends.

· 100,000 beta invitation requests in the first 72 hours.

· Founding team of Berkeley graduate students who concentrated on search, and who also worked at social network and search companies.

Ark is proud to have been part of the talented YCombinator Class of W2012.

Founders
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  • Yiming Liu
    Chief Platform Officer at Ark; Co-Founder of Popcuts (YCombinator startup, SXSW Accelerator winner); Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley
  • Patrick Riley
    Founder / CEO of Ark (YC W12) Berkeley Ph.D. in CS focused on search. Previously worked at leading search and social media companies as Product & UX Director.
Previous Investors
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  • George Zachary
    A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
  • John Lilly
    Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd http://john.jubjubs.net
  • Josh Elman
    Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
  • Don Hutchison
    Marin Software Bd Member; Recurrent Energy Co-founder & COB; Work.com CEO; Excite@Home GM & SVP; bd member @ multiple public and private companies.
  • Ken Keller
    Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
  • Jeff Jordan
Incubator
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  • Y Combinator
    Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, at which the startups present to the world's top startup investors.
Advisors
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  • Eric Ries
    Author of The Lean Startup
  • Paul Buchheit
    Partner at YCombinator, Founder of FriendFeed, Creator of GMail
  • Jason Calacanis
    Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
  • Garry Tan
    Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
  • Sebastian Pollok
    Tech VC at BV Capital in SF. Cheeseburger connoisseur. Globetrotter. Founder.
  • Aaron Iba
    Investor in GazeHawk.
Employees
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  • Yiming Liu
    Chief Platform Officer at Ark; Co-Founder of Popcuts (YCombinator startup, SXSW Accelerator winner); Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley
  • Kevin Liang
    Hacker @ Berkeley. Creating software to enrich lives. Front End engineer intern at Ark. Founder and President of a professional entrepreneurship fraternity.
  • Brandon Istenes
  • Anand Lakshminarayan
  • Peter Wysinski
  • Sambit Behera
    QA Lead Intern at Ark.com