Seekda
| seekda logo | |
| Type | Research Spin-off |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founder(s) | Dieter Fensel [1] Holger Lausen [2], CTO Alexander Wahler, CEO Michal Zaremba [3], CRO |
| Headquarters | Austria Innsbruck, Austria |
| Industry | Internet , Computer Software Research and Development |
| Products | Web Services search engine IT solutions for the eTourism |
| Employees | 15 plus 8 outsourced |
| Website | seekda.com |
seekda is an Austrian spin-off company[1] that specializes in developing and marketing Web Services oriented products, particularly a Web based search engine allowing to locate public Web Services and innovative IT solutions for the eTourism sector.
seekda has been built on the results of the European Union funded DIP[2], and Austrian FIT-IT (German: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH) RW2[3] projects. The company is itself a research spin-off of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI Innsbruck) at the University of Innsbruck. The corporate headquarters of seekda is located in Innsbruck, Austria.
The company developed the first global Web Service Search Engine based on focused crawling[4], allowing access to publicly available Web Services. seekda constantly crawls the Web for new Web Services and currently indexes and daily monitors over 27K public Web Services from more than 7K providers[5]. Company is launching its business product based on services for e-tourism industry: (1) Switch system providing with one profile the access to hundreds of hotels' room distribution channels and (2) Internet Booking Engine, which can be integrated with hotels' websites and is hosted as SaaS [6].
Research and development
The company is supported by local Austrian agencies (pre-seed funding):
- CAST[7] - Center for Academic spin-offs Tyrol
- AWS[8] - Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft
The company is involved in several research projects in the European Seventh Framework Program:
The company is involved in one research Austrian FIT-IT funded project:
- Service Detective[12]
Awards
- The Winner of the Business Idea Contest at European Semantic Technology Conference (still using the initial Aleph name) [13]
- Nominee in AdventureX business plan contest [14]
References
- ↑ Digital Enterprise Research Institute/Semantic Technology Institute about seekda(Retrieved 27 November 2007)
- ↑ Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services - Project DIP
- ↑ Reasoning With Web Services
- ↑ Finding Web Services. European Semantic Technology Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 2007
- ↑ seekda info at CAST website (Retrieved 27 November 2007)
- ↑ seekda! connect
- ↑ CAST (Center for Academic spin-offs Tyrol) (Retrieved 27 November 2007)
- ↑ aws (Austria Wirtschaftsservice) 24 August 2008
- ↑ Website of SOA4ALL project
- ↑ Website of Service Finder project
- ↑ Website of Insemtives project
- ↑ Website of Service Detective project
- ↑ Business Idea Contest at European Semantic Technology Conference (Retrieved 23 November 2007)
- ↑ Nominee in AdventureX business plan contest (Retrieved 23 November 2007)
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