Powerset
San Francisco · Founded 2005
About Powerset
Powerset is a search engine focused on natural language processing. In other words, Powerset will not search based simply on keywords alone, but will try to understand the semantic meaning behind the search phrase as a whole. The company [launched](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/11/powerset-launches-showcase-for-user-search-experience/) in Sep 2005 with intentions of making search more easy and intuitive. Powerset was acquired by [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) on 1st July 2008.
Company Facts
- Founded: 2005
- Legal name: Powerset Inc.
- Operating status: Acquired
- Company type: For Profit
- IPO status: Private
- Employees: 51 – 100
- Estimated revenue: Less than $1M
- Total funding: $20.5M
- Funding stage: M&A
- Last round: Debt Financing (Jan 2007)
- Website: powerset.com
- Phone: 415-848-7000
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