ChaCha Overview
In January of 2008, ChaCha launched its mobile answers text service at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Since that day, hundreds of thousands of people have become ChaCha fans - of both the text AND mobile answers voice service - asking ChaCha millions and millions of questions every month. Thanks to all the passionate, innovative ChaCha fans who’ve tried us! And for those of you new to ChaCha....More»
In January of 2008, ChaCha launched its mobile answers text service at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Since that day, hundreds of thousands of people have become ChaCha fans - of both the text AND mobile answers voice service - asking ChaCha millions and millions of questions every month. Thanks to all the passionate, innovative ChaCha fans who’ve tried us! And for those of you new to ChaCha. Welcome. What is your question? We’re happy to help you!«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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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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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 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Teriffic system. Works great! |
bbrunelle 08/09/2008 |
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 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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I have used it and it has worked really well. |
green33 06/09/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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They retired the human powered search concept |
chuck 05/25/2008 |
100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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Mobile search will be a huge market |
green33 03/27/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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Co-Founders are successful serial entepreneurs |
green33 03/27/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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| 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 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Human powered search does not seem scalable |
dave 01/10/2008 |
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 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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