SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aggregate Knowledge, the leader in the new category of online Discovery, today announced that it has been selected by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Companies for 2007. Aggregate Knowledge was selected from more than 1,000 nominated companies for its innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
Aggregate Knowledge and the AlwaysOn 100 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31–August 2 at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry.
"The AlwaysOn 100 companies will shape the future of our globally-connected technology environment," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "We were inundated with nominations from leading companies driven by tomorrow's thought leaders and technology visionaries who are hard at work pushing the limits of innovation. My congratulations to the AlwaysOn 100 winners — these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year."
"Aggregate Knowledge is honored to be named as one of the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies for our leadership in Discovery," said Paul Martino, Aggregate Knowledge CEO and founder. "Aggregate Knowledge Discovery offerings are driving discovery for more than 50 million users on some of the world's most visited media and retail sites.”
About Aggregate Knowledge
Aggregate Knowledge offers the industry’s first online Collective Discovery Services that emulate the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated super computing architecture, Aggregate Knowledge harnesses the behavior of users to fundamentally change the way people navigate and engage online. Aggregate Knowledge delivers significant revenue enhancement to site owners by providing real-time collective merchandising and navigation capabilities. Aggregate Knowledge is recognized as a 2006 AlwaysOn Media 100 winner and a Supernova Connected Innovator. Funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures, the company's management team includes veterans from Blockbuster, IBM, Kodak, Mercury, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and Tribe.net.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
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