Every year, Powerset, founded by AngelList alum Jack Zeller and coaching company Athena founder Jonathan Swanson, hands five to ten founders $1 million to invest in other startups — potentially ...

Powerset has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding and as Dan Farber notes will need more money if it's going to index the Web. Also see: Paul Miller: Powerset shows semantic search solution ...

Powerset co-founder Lorenzo Thione is also quoted in the company's press release; "Our first product has only touched the surface of what our technology will allow.

Today, natural language search engine Powerset is finally opening its doors to everyone, as well as unveiling a set of tools that have previously been seen by only a handful of people. This marks ...

Powerset faces the same challenge that Twine does or Hakia does, in that respect. Because it’s trying to create new ways of navigating the Internet, there’s no tried-and-true model to copy.

Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language search for Wikipedia content (Techmeme). This effort is really a proof of concept--a strong one--to indicate what is possible if the Web were to ...

Powerset COO Steve Newcomb told me that recent breakthroughs in both the XLE algorithms and in technology (the predictable Moore's Law) have made it economically feasible to index the Web for meaning.

Powerset’s strength is in Natural Language Processing, or understanding the meaning and context of words. Lots of words like those found in a magazine, text book, or newspaper article.

Powerset doesn’t offer Microsoft the strong brand, users and multitude of Web properties that Yahoo would have, Sterling agreed. “This is not a substitute for what they were going for with ...

Microsoft, with its giant warchest, certainly could afford Powerset. The start-up raised $12.5 million in a financing round from Foundation Capital and Founders Fund in 2006, valuing the company ...

Powerset, founded in late 2022, is an investment program with a simple hypothesis: What if the best investors aren’t venture capitalists but other founders, scribbling off checks in between late ...