Omgili Receives Seed Venture Capital Funding

Omgili Ltd., an Israeli based web search and research startup, announced recently that it has obtained seed funding. The investors are Israeli based venture capitalists Pitango Venture Capital.

Omgili is a web based information services company. The company’s search and research services are based on advanced and proprietary discussion group search technologies. These services enable individuals, companies and institutions to effectively tap into the collective intelligence and experience of millions of people on the World Wide Web, and derive valuable, information, knowledge, conclusions and insights.

The funding enables Omgili to upscale its search and storage capabilities to the dimensions needed in order to cover the lion’s share of relevant online information on a daily basis, to pursue its plans to commercialize its technology and will take the company to a planned first round of funding.

Omgili search is rapidly growing in popularity, which confirms our belief that people can really benefit from knowing what other people are saying. Omgilis mission is to harness the infinite power of many to many web communication platforms for the benefit of our customers. said Ran Geva, CEO of Omgili Ltd. User Generated Content is a vast sea of knowledge and experience that is now at everyone’s disposal.

Omgili search is based on proprietary and patent protected search technology which allows it to identify online discussions and differentiate between discussion components like titles, topics, posts, replies and dates.

Geva adds, Our advanced search capabilities will allow us to develop cutting edge marketing research tools that will allow marketers worldwide to actually listen to what their consumers are saying about their brands and products, in an unbiased and unsolicited environment.

Rona Segev-Gal, General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital: We found Omgili to be a technologically innovative company that’s bringing something genuinely new to the online search and research space. Omgili’s technology will enable marketing professionals to actually be connected to their consumers needs, in real time

Segev-Gal emphasized that the investment in Omgili is part of Pitangos strategy to grant seed funding to companies at their very early stages.

Omgili was founded in April 2007 by the entrepreneurs Ran Geva and Israel tzadok. The name Omgili is derived from the initials of the expression Oh My God I Love It! which is what the application developers think of its technology – The best way in the known universe to find out what people are saying about anything and everything.

Omgili is a vertical search engine that focuses on many to many user generated content platforms, such as, forums, Discussion groups, answer boards and others.

Omgili is a crawler based, vertical search engine that scans tens of millions of online discussions worldwide in hundreds of thousands of boards and forums, and is able to differentiate between discussion entities, such as title, topic, answer and post date.

Omgili is your way to find consumer opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers and solutions. Most of the questions have already been answered find the answers through Omgili. Most of the technical problems have been solved find the solutions through Omgili. Most of the experiences have already been described Find these descriptions through Omgili.

Omgili is a company that believes in the power of discussion and in the benefit of listening. We are dedicated to promoting the online discussion and to making it work for the general good.

For more information, please visit www.omgili.com