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ChaCha Overview
ChaCha answers who, what, when, where and why, and has emerged as the No. 1 way for advertisers and marketers to engage teens and young adults. Through its unique “ask-a-smart-friend” platform, ChaCha has answered nearly one billion questions since launch from more than 15 million unique users per month via SMS text (242-242™), online (chacha.com), Twitter (@chacha), Facebook app, iPhone app,...More»
ChaCha answers who, what, when, where and why, and has emerged as the No. 1 way for advertisers and marketers to engage teens and young adults. Through its unique “ask-a-smart-friend” platform, ChaCha has answered nearly one billion questions since launch from more than 15 million unique users per month via SMS text (242-242™), online (chacha.com), Twitter (@chacha), Facebook app, iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha™). Working with major brands such as Paramount, AT&T, Palm, Johnson&Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Sonic, and presidential political campaigns, ChaCha.com is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast.
ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS a«Less
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Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 01/2007 | Series A | 6M | Unknown | |
| 11/2007 | Series B | 10M | Unknown | |
| 01/2009 | Series C | 30M | Unknown |
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| 07/2009 | Series D | 4M | Unknown |
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| 12/2009 | Other | 7M | Unknown |
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| 10/2010 | Other | 20M | Unknown | |
| 01/19/2011 | Other | 3M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | ChaCha |
| Product URL: | http://chacha.com/ |
| Date Launched: | 11/2008 |
| Description: | 1. Simply ask your question from your mobile phone as if you were talking to a smart friend. 2. We'll instantly route your question to the most knowledgeable person on that topic in our Guide community. 3. Your answer is then returned to your phone as a text message within a few minutes. |
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| Name: | ChaCha Answers |
| Product URL: | http://apps.facebook.com/chacha-answers/?auth_token=52bff2252d53ca1ebc9b0eaf5a8f62e7&installed=1 |
| Description: | ChaCha's FaceBook App lets users ask questions of any friend or friends in their network, and the question is also automatically submitted to ChaCha, the leading answer's service with over 400 million answers. ChaCha will return an answer as one of your "smart friends". FaceBook users can also share a question and it will post to friend's walls. There is also a leaderboard with a points system for recognition and fun. |
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| Name: | ChaCha.me |
| Product URL: | http://me.chacha.com/ |
| Date Launched: | 03/2010 |
| Description: | Ask other ChaChees questions. Answer questions other ChaChees want to know about you. |
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01/21/2011 02:01PM by limguine
User Opinions
Bulls vs. Bears (10)
| Bullish Opinions (7) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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These guys are going to succeed |
voipsipguru 02/16/2009 |
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100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Teriffic system. Works great! |
bbrunelle 08/09/2008 |
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100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Incredible "Universe" interface for guides, including myself, to answer text queries |
wms2106 07/23/2008 |
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100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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I have used it and it has worked really well. |
green33 06/09/2008 |
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100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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They retired the human powered search concept |
chuck 05/25/2008 |
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100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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Mobile search will be a huge market |
green33 03/27/2008 |
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100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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Co-Founders are successful serial entepreneurs |
green33 03/27/2008 |
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100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
| Bearish Opinions (3) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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human powered = high cost, low scale. has been tried before |
liberty248 11/22/2008 |
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100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Human powered search does not seem scalable |
dave 01/10/2008 |
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100% 8 votes 8 0% 0 |
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Some of the press surrounding this company has left me a bit skeptical |
applekid 01/10/2008 |
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100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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