Kosmix
Founders
Anand Rajaraman -
Venky Harinarayan -
Founded
2004
Stage
Series B
Invested
2005
Status
Private
Lightspeed Team
Ravi Mhatre - Partner & Co-Founder

Kosmix was developed founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman to let users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. The company was acquired by Walmart in 2011.

Ravi Mhatre
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