Aggregate Knowledge Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner
Recognized for leadership in emerging discovery technology
San Mateo, CA—January 17, 2007—Aggregate Knowledge, the industry’s first online Collective Discovery Service that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Aggregate Knowledge was hand picked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria – innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and investor value creation.
Deployed as a Web 2.0 service, Aggregate Knowledge achieves its breakthrough in discovery by observing the anonymous behavior of prior customers to anticipate each new customer’s intent and to present new relevant options. By presenting users with engaging content, Aggregate Knowledge boosts website sales and readership.
“We are honored to be recognized as an AlwaysOn Media 100 Company,” said Paul Martino, CEO and founder of Aggregate Knowledge. “Discovery has emerged as an exciting new category that can deliver value to both our customers and end consumers. Since our technology can be deployed in a matter of days, we immediately deliver a breakthrough in sales, page views and customer satisfaction.”
Aggregate Knowledge and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the digital era, showcasing top innovative private companies that are revolutionizing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.
The AO Media 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO Media 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development.
“We scoured hundreds of applications we received to vote on the top emerging private technology companies,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “Selected are the companies we think are demonstrating significant market traction or pursuing game-changing technology. We expect these organizations to have a big impact for both New York and Silicon Valley.”
A full list of all the AO Media 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/8813
About Aggregate Knowledge
Aggregate Knowledge provides the Pique Discovery Network. The Pique Discovery Network connects consumers to the hottest products, hidden content gems, and coolest items from industry leading retailers and media companies. Pique Discovery Network companies improve engagement and sales conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites. Aggregate Knowledge was recently acknowledged as an AlwaysOn Media 100 winner, a Supernova Connected Innovator and was selected as a “Ones to Watch” company by Dealmaker Media. Aggregate Knowledge is funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures and First Round Capital.
About OnHollywood 2006: May 2-4 @ The Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood
AlwaysOn Hollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries.
At AlwaysOn Hollywood, our editors will also honor the AO Hollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Hollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our “CEO Showcase.”
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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Media Contact:
Krause Taylor Associates for Aggregate Knowledge
Barbara Krause
408 918-9081 direct
408 918-9080 main
barbara@krause-taylor.com
For AO Media
Edelman
212 704-8249 Renee Edelman
650 762-2940 Leslie Nakajima
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