NachoFoto: Helps you find most recent & relevant images

Friday July 15, 2011 , 2 min Read

Nacho Photo — NachoFoto is a B2B technology startup company founded by Vineet, Anuj and Monica Agarwal with offices in Mumbai and California, Nachofoto has a team consisting of some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn co-founder Konstantin Guericke and Dr Larry Cornett(Ex Yahoo VP who also worked at eBay, Apple, IBM) are a part of the NachoPhoto team. They provide multiple semantic search products which are listed on their labspage. NachoFoto Technology dramatically improves the freshness and perceived relevance of search suggestions, related searches and image search results. It provides a discovery experience to explore interesting trends in various verticals, even before users are aware of it.

Technology in use - Semantic technology, machine learning algorithms, complex pattern recognition , data structuring and data mining techniques, handcrafted linguistic grammar-based techniques as well as statistical models that produce near-human performance. They have applied for 3 patents with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office).

Revenue model: Nachofoto licenses their technology to search and digital media companies. News about a fruitful partnership with one of the top search engines is in the offing.

Competitors: Search technology companies like Google, Bing, Yahoo.

Market differentiator: The focus is on a specific vertical of search. Existing technology makes use of users searching pattern and user search logs to detect what’s trending on the web. In contrast, they use fresh content available on the web to detect most interesting topics/trends on the web. Nachofoto image search product surfaces most recent/latest and popular images from the web.

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Jubin Mehta | YourStory.in

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