Parakweet - AngelList

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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.

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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

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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

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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.