Guruji
A crawler-based search engine.
Description
Guruji.com was the first crawler based search engine developed completely in India and designed to make search simple for Indian users. Their proprietary algorithms automatically identified content on the web and organize it in such a way that Indian users get search results that are relevant to them. Started by two IIT-Delhi graduates Anurag Dod andGaurav Mishra, Guruji.com now offers search verticals like Music, Finance, Image, City, Movie Timings besides web search.
Legal Name
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Former Legal Name(s)
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Company Reputation
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Entity Type
Private limited company
Ownership Status
-
Operational Status
Inactive
Founded Date
2006
Operational Duration
6 years
Shutdown Date
2012
Last Financing Round
Series B
Total Raised
USD 15M
Last Financing Date
1 Jan 2007
No. of Funding Round(s)
2
No. of Investor(s)
1
No. of Employees
10 - 50
Total Revenue
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Post-money Valuation
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Market Capitalization
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Stage of Development
Validation
Transactional Model Type
B2C
Defensibility Moats
User networks, Willingness to experiment,
City
Bangalore
State/Province
Karnataka
Country
India
Industry
Internet
Categories
Search Engine, Web Browsers,
- Legal Issues
- They launched a functionality of searching pirated music over the internet in 2008.
- They were using 'deep linking' method to search music over internet that other search engines like Baidu's (popular Chinese search engine) were already using, though it was illegal within many countries which were having proper cyber laws.
- In those days sites like SongsPK (and similar) were getting high traffic, hence Guruji team thought that it would be a good idea another effective music search engine.
- They forgot that they were a big company now and they can be easily brought into High Court for doing any piracy acts (music search was one such act) and badluck for Guruji, it did happened. T-Series filed a lawsuit against Guruji for providing free pirated songs of T-Series.
- Anurag Dod, CEO of Guruji.com, along-with other executives, were arrested in Bangalore on charges of making available the copies of the copyrighted musical works owned by T-Series.
The founder was arrested along with other company executives.
Note: Direct competitors are defined by similarity score of more than 40%, while similar companies are defined by similarity score of less than 40%
| No. | Image | Name | Similarity score | Description | Industry | Categories | Location | Ownership status | Entity type | Stage of development | Transactional model type | Defensibility moats | Last financing round | Total raised | Post-money valuation | Last financing date | No. of funding round(s) | No. of investors | Investors | Total revenue | Market capitalization | No. of investments | No. of acquisitions | No. of board seats taken | Competition | Management | No. of employees | Company reputation | Contact info | Operational status | Operational duration | Shutdown date | Founded date | Legal name | Former legal name(s) | Ticker |
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28. |  | Svpply | 6.5% | A social shopping site that enabled users to register and start keeping track of products that they like. | Internet | E-Commerce, Social, Shopping, Web Browsers | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5000-10001 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2009 | - | - | - |
| No. | Image | Name | Investor type | Description | Location | Preferred investment stage(s) | Stages invested in | Assets under management (AUM) | Investment range | Investment sweet spot | Preferred investment focus | Preferred investment geography | No. of investments | No. of lead investments | No. of follow-on investments | No. of co-investments | Portfolio companies | No. of exits | Total exit value | No. of failed investments | Loss on investments | No. of acquisitions | No. of board seats taken | No. of funds | Limited partners | Co-investors | No. of partners | Partners | No. of employees | Management | Board members | Founders | Investor reputation | Contact info | Entity type | Legal name | Former legal name(s) | Founded date | Ticker |
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1. |  | Sequoia Capital | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| No. | Image | Name | Previous designation | Previous company | Previous biography | Previous profile type | Previous location | Experience | Education | Reputation | Current company | Current designation | Current biography | Current profile type | Current location | No. of investments | No. of exits | Total exit value | No. of board seats taken | Contact info |
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1. |  | Anurag Dod | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2. |  | Gaurav Mishra | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| No. | Financing date | Financing round | Total amount raised | Post-money valuation | Financial viability | Fundraising target amount | Remaining target amount | Financing type | No. of investors | Board seats | Lead investors | Entity type | Financing status |
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1. | 1 Jan 2007 | Series B | USD 8M | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Completed | ||
2. | 1 Jan 2006 | Funding round | USD 7M | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | Completed |
