Inflection Gets $30M, Launches PeopleSmart
Wade Roush9/2/10
Palo Alto, CA-based Inflection has launched a new consumer-oriented people search engine called PeopleSmart with features designed to protect privacy, according to an announcement today. Also the creator of the Archives.com geneaology site, Inflection raised a Series A venture round in July from Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. The round totaled $30 million, according to a report today in VentureWire.
Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.
Mack
9/2/10 11:52 am
Umm … I think that should be Peoplesmart.com, not Looksmart.com…
Wade Roush
9/2/10 12:01 pm
@Mack: Of course you’re correct. I’ve corrected the piece. I have an appointment with LookSmart later today (the real LookSmart, not PeopleSmart), and my increasingly porous brain mixed them up…