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Parakweet is building products to help you discover interesting activities, events and products your friends are talking about. We apply NLP, automatic categorization and machine learning to do all this in an automated and scalable manner. Our first product is in closed private beta right now.

Founders
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  • Ramesh Haridas
    Co-founder, Parakweet; founded and sold PrivacyBank.com for $36 million, founded and sold Chintano, investor in 20+ startups
  • Kiam Choo
    Co-founder and CTO at Parakweet. Founded Accumo, a search clustering startup. MS in CS and Physics
  • Duan Tran
    Software Engineer at Parakweet. CS PhD from UIUC. Background in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Text Analysis.
  • Ilmars Poikans
    Lead engineer at Parakweet, Lead engineer at Chintano, Co-founder of One.lv (the Facebook of Latvia), Researcher at AI Lab at the University of Latvia, MS in CS
Previous Investors
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  • Cyan And Scott Banister
    We like startups
  • David Jeske
    Founder Neotonic (sold to Google). Engineering Director @ Google for orkut.com, Google Groups, sign-in. Manager / Architect for eGroups.com and Yahoo Groups.
  • Peter Bordes
    Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
  • Ramesh Haridas
    Serial entrepreneur with a couple of exits. Early investor in AVG, Mashery, 8tracks, Refinery29, Rapportive, 500Startups. UIUC Computer Science.
  • Vikas Taneja
    Angel investor (500 Startups, Parakweet, Rapportive, 8tracks, PubNub, Mashery, Founders Coop, Refinery29, Food52,...) Partner at BCG. Chicago MBA. Stanford CS.
  • Dave Lerner
    host & founder of @venturestudio, 3x entrepreneur, angel investor, director university venture lab
Advisors
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  • Munjal Shah
    Founder and CEO of Like.com sold to Google last year. Previous company Andale sold to Alibaba. Started first company at 26. MS Stanford in CS
  • John Philip Green
    EIR at Hedgewood. http://johnphilipgreen.com
  • Jim Kingsbury
    Continually curious about the ever-increasing quantification of marketing.