Comments on: Riya Nails Second Round Financing http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:59 -0800 hourly 1 By: Bizzare http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-156850 Bizzare Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:46:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-156850 <strong>Bizzare...</strong> zigworlg acmcsgdxqo rlyqcqnm anfohevlcg trtqrukjew... Bizzare…

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]]> By: TechCrunch » Riya to Launch Today http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-21724 TechCrunch » Riya to Launch Today Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:04:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-21724 [...] Riya, which is funded by Blue Run Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures, and Bay Partners, is a service that automatically recognizes people in photos and groups them. Add a tag to the person and all of the photos are tagged with that name. As your friends and family join Riya too, many of their pictures will automatically be tagged with your data (and their other friends’ data) too. [...] [...] Riya, which is funded by Blue Run Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures, and Bay Partners, is a service that automatically recognizes people in photos and groups them. Add a tag to the person and all of the photos are tagged with that name. As your friends and family join Riya too, many of their pictures will automatically be tagged with your data (and their other friends’ data) too. [...]

]]> By: VentureWeek » VentureWeek #6 - Week Ending 1/16/06 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-9588 VentureWeek » VentureWeek #6 - Week Ending 1/16/06 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:22:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-9588 [...] - Riya raises $15mm second round - Truveo acquired by AOL - WebJay acquired by Yahoo! - SearchFox shuts down - Loomia launches podcast recommendation engine - iNods launches - Google personalized mobile home pages launch - Podzinger launches - Flurry raises seed round - Limbo raises $1.1mm first round - Lightspeed closes $475mm fund - SpotRunner is announced - Michael Arrington launches MobileCrunch - Snap & Send Digital Postcard - Sharkride.com launches - Support VentureWeek’s first sponsor! January 16th 2006 Posted to Weekly Wrap-Ups [...] [...] – Riya raises $15mm second round – Truveo acquired by AOL – WebJay acquired by Yahoo! – SearchFox shuts down – Loomia launches podcast recommendation engine – iNods launches – Google personalized mobile home pages launch – Podzinger launches – Flurry raises seed round – Limbo raises $1.1mm first round – Lightspeed closes $475mm fund – SpotRunner is announced – Michael Arrington launches MobileCrunch – Snap & Send Digital Postcard – Sharkride.com launches – Support VentureWeek’s first sponsor! January 16th 2006 Posted to Weekly Wrap-Ups [...]

]]> By: make clean; make all http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-9018 make clean; make all Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:47:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-9018 <strong>Discount...</strong> Walter and I were working on taking the rightmost image, placing those colored squares in correspondence of detected faces (and trying to recognize them), and also extracting the rightmost image to get the jersey number, when I thought: hey, let\'s t... Discount…

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]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8294 Michael Arrington Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:21:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8294 Bala, I didn't have the same problems as others, including you, but the company did hand hold me through the process. This obviously helped. Bala, I didn’t have the same problems as others, including you, but the company did hand hold me through the process. This obviously helped.

]]> By: Bala http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8291 Bala Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:12:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8291 This is good news for Riya. I guess Riya must have enhanced its application quite some for the investors to part with their money again. I am looking forward to the Feb release. But I still am struggling to understand the high praise you have for Riya based on the alpha release. My experience with Riya's alpha release was extremely disappointing. Here is my review: http://balak.blogspot.com/2005/12/riya-alpha-release-so-alpha-it-hurts.html#links with actual examples where Riya failed! I asked here before, could you please share some samples from your Riya testing? This is good news for Riya. I guess Riya must have enhanced its application quite some for the investors to part with their money again. I am looking forward to the Feb release.

But I still am struggling to understand the high praise you have for Riya based on the alpha release. My experience with Riya’s alpha release was extremely disappointing. Here is my review: http://balak.bl...urts.html#links
with actual examples where Riya failed!
I asked here before, could you please share some samples from your Riya testing?

]]> By: BlogReader http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8265 BlogReader Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:44:19 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8265 <i>[ Ben Bakhsi ] Surely Riya’s technology is with it</i> To me it looks like flickr + face recognition software. Is there more to it than that? I'm not sure how this is worth $1.5M let alone $15M. [ Ben Bakhsi ] Surely Riya’s technology is with it

To me it looks like flickr + face recognition software. Is there more to it than that? I’m not sure how this is worth $1.5M let alone $15M.

]]> By: Riya_watch http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8258 Riya_watch Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:19:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8258 Insiders say the money is for improving the platform and making a real go of it, now that the sale didn't happen on the initial build of "dazzleware". Cool tech, no doubt, but Munjal Shah's flip strategy is going to take longer to reach fruition. Insiders say the money is for improving the platform and making a real go of it, now that the sale didn’t happen on the initial build of “dazzleware”.

Cool tech, no doubt, but Munjal Shah’s flip strategy is going to take longer to reach fruition.

]]> By: Ben Bakhshi http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8253 Ben Bakhshi Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:31:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8253 I'm not sure if I am a big fan of this move. Surely Riya's technology is with it; their beta testers are having a good time with it, so it seems legitimate enough. Now, why do you go and get millions of dollars now, when you could keep on chugging and end up with a much greater share of the company than you will have now. Their product is so worthwhile that there are many ways that I see they can be making money: Charging people to use the service and upload unlimited photos, and/or charge them to print them. Affiliate yourself with Yahoo photos or MSN due to superior technology, BUT DONT GET BOUGHT OUT. Or create software for other industries that might be interested in facial recognition software, such as photographers, modeling agencies, movies, etc. My 2 cents I’m not sure if I am a big fan of this move. Surely Riya’s technology is with it; their beta testers are having a good time with it, so it seems legitimate enough. Now, why do you go and get millions of dollars now, when you could keep on chugging and end up with a much greater share of the company than you will have now.
Their product is so worthwhile that there are many ways that I see they can be making money: Charging people to use the service and upload unlimited photos, and/or charge them to print them. Affiliate yourself with Yahoo photos or MSN due to superior technology, BUT DONT GET BOUGHT OUT. Or create software for other industries that might be interested in facial recognition software, such as photographers, modeling agencies, movies, etc.
My 2 cents

]]> By: Creative Imagination :: Ken McGuire - Internet Technology, Web 2.0 & More http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8244 Creative Imagination :: Ken McGuire - Internet Technology, Web 2.0 & More Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:11:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8244 <strong>More funding for Riya...</strong> I blogged a bit about Riya late last year and TechCrunch is now reporting that they’ve just sealed a further $15 million bucks from an existing investor. For those of you who don’t know anything about Riya, check my previous post here. Th... More funding for Riya…

I blogged a bit about Riya late last year and TechCrunch is now reporting that they’ve just sealed a further $15 million bucks from an existing investor.
For those of you who don’t know anything about Riya, check my previous post here. Th…

]]> By: Core Dump http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8237 Core Dump Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:23:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8237 <strong>Riya raises second round funding...</strong> According to their blog and also at Techcrunch, Riya has managed to raise $15 million from Bay Partners for their second round funding. These guys have some really cool technology as noted in the original review. Also covered earlier was...... Riya raises second round funding…

According to their blog and also at Techcrunch, Riya has managed to raise $15 million from Bay Partners for their second round funding. These guys have some really cool technology as noted in the original review. Also covered earlier was……

]]> By: Technoogle » Blog Archive » Riya Gets Secound Round Funding http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8235 Technoogle » Blog Archive » Riya Gets Secound Round Funding Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:05:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8235 [...] Mike Arrington Reports of great news for the Facial Recognition and Photo Tagging Startup Riya. [...] [...] Mike Arrington Reports of great news for the Facial Recognition and Photo Tagging Startup Riya. [...]

]]> By: Peter Rip http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8221 Peter Rip Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:46:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8221 Hi Mike: Small typo. I think you meant to say from "existing investors and Bay Partners". Happy New Year. Call me sometime. Much to catch up. PR Hi Mike:

Small typo. I think you meant to say from “existing investors and Bay Partners”.

Happy New Year. Call me sometime. Much to catch up.

PR

]]> By: BlueAce » Archief » Webjay krijgt de zak van Yahoo http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8218 BlueAce » Archief » Webjay krijgt de zak van Yahoo Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:25:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8218 [...] Maar het geld komt niet alleen van Yahoo! natuurlijk. Zo heeft Riya, een foto service die gezichten herkend, 15 miljoen dollar opgehaald bij onze gouwe ouwe vrienden: de VC’s. En zoals altijd stel ik dan de vraag: wat moet je er in godsnaam mee? Maar dat zal de nuchtere Hollander in mij wel zijn ;) [...] [...] Maar het geld komt niet alleen van Yahoo! natuurlijk. Zo heeft Riya, een foto service die gezichten herkend, 15 miljoen dollar opgehaald bij onze gouwe ouwe vrienden: de VC’s. En zoals altijd stel ik dan de vraag: wat moet je er in godsnaam mee? Maar dat zal de nuchtere Hollander in mij wel zijn ;) [...]

]]> By: Levée de fond de RIYA at 2803, le blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8211 Levée de fond de RIYA at 2803, le blog Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:43:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8211 [...] Via SiliconBeat et Techcrunch [...] [...] Via SiliconBeat et Techcrunch [...]

]]> By: Software Only http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8210 Software Only Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:33:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8210 <strong>Riya recognizes 150,000 Benjamin Franklins...</strong> I just read on TechCrunch the official announcement of the fund raising Riya has recently completed, and I must admit that I had to check the number twice: $15M is the amount the company has brought in from newinvestor Bay Partners. Munjal comments on ... Riya recognizes 150,000 Benjamin Franklins…

I just read on TechCrunch the official announcement of the fund raising Riya has recently completed, and I must admit that I had to check the number twice: $15M is the amount the company has brought in from newinvestor Bay Partners. Munjal comments on …

]]> By: Craig Sherman http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-8207 Craig Sherman Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:01:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/riya-nails-second-round-financing/#comment-8207 MyHeritage.com is a better product, no? Certainly growing faster in terms of site traffic - and blog mentions. They must have another product or fundament new business model that they've kept secret from all but the funders. MyHeritage.com is a better product, no? Certainly growing faster in terms of site traffic – and blog mentions. They must have another product or fundament new business model that they’ve kept secret from all but the funders.

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