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OurCrowd portfolio company Curiyo was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. Curiyo is a browser plugin that helps deliver relevant content to users curious to know more about a word or phrase on a site, without forcing users to leave the page they are on. A decade and a half ago, the world was enthralled with text — and Answers.com, the pioneering web information service, made it easy for users to learn about a topic by highlighting a word on a website and connecting to Wikipedia and other sources for definitions, history, and background information. That was a fine idea for the early years of the 21st century, said Bob Rosenschein, creator of Answers.com — but in the new era of mobile multimedia and social media interaction, text isn’t enough. […] “With Curiyo, our new information search engine, you can find images, videos, Reddit posts — as well as information from text sources. Plus, we have developed a mobile version of the service to enable users to get in touch...

OurCrowd portfolio company Curiyo was featured in TechCrunch, a leading technology website. Curiyo is a browser plugin that helps deliver relevant content to users curious to know more about a word or phrase on a site, without forcing users to leave the page they are on. Curiyo, a company that makes software which consumers, bloggers and publishers use to enhance an online article with subtle links that direct you to useful facts and other information, has raised an additional round of just under $1 million in funding. Included in the round were both new and existing investors, crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, Morton H. Meyerson, Tom Glocer (former Reuters CEO) and Techra Investments. The Jerusalem-based startup was founded in 2011 by Bob Rosenschein, the founder and former CEO of the site Answers.com. Curiyo raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in December 2012 and $230,000 in a follow-on funding round in February 2014. Read more on...

OurCrowd portfolio company, Curiyo, has been awarded PC Magazine’s highest editorial honor, the Editors’ Choice award. Curiyo is a browser plugin that helps deliver relevant content to users curious to know more about a word or phrase on a site, without forcing users to leave the page they are on. The PCMag Editors’ Choice is awarded to products and services that rise above similar products in leading technology categories. In the review, PC Magazine editor Samara Lynn describes Curiyo’s technology as very impressive and gives it a score of 4 out of 5 stars. There is a lot of content to sift through on the Internet. When you want to give your readers of your site more information about a particular word or phrase, it typically involves adding hyperlinks into your site. This means redirecting readers to yet another part of the Internet, when you want them to stay on your site. Curiyo does this work for you and gives your audience extra information they want at a click, without having to leave your site. It’s impressive technology although the long-press feature seems to work a little inconsistently. Curiyo is...

OurCrowd portfolio company Curiyo was featured in Mashable, a popular website covering  the top social media news. Curiyo is a browser plugin that helps deliver relevant content to users curious to know more about a word or phrase on a site, without forcing users to leave the page they are on. USA Today is trying out a new content discovery tool to keep readers from leaving the site. The newspaper has tapped Curiyo, a startup founded by Bob Rosenschein, who created Answers.com and sold it to AFCV Holdings for $127 million in 2011. Curiyo lets you click on a word or name to find out more about them. The idea is to discourage readers from navigating away from the page they’re reading to research on Wikipedia or elsewhere. Rosenschein says publishers are interested in the idea, especially since it doesn’t slow the site down (“It’s a line of Javascript!”). Curiyo raised $550,000 from OurCrowd investors in December 2012 and $230,000 in a follow-on funding round in February 2014. Read more on...