Omnity
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Omnity was a San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2015 and led by co-founder and CEO Brian Sager, that built a semantic-mapping search and discovery engine for researchers. Instead of keywords and links, it found connections between documents based on rare shared words, claiming it could compare many millions of documents in a fraction of a second to reveal hidden patterns across science, finance, law, engineering and medicine. The National Science Foundation provided initial funding, and the company claimed 120 patents.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Founded
Omnity was founded in San Francisco by Brian Sager and team, with initial funding from the National Science Foundation, to build a semantic search engine for research and knowledge discovery.
- Commercial launch
Omnity debuted at CES and launched its commercial research platform with five pricing tiers (free Public and Academic tiers, paid Professional, Executive and Enterprise tiers), claiming 120 patents.
- Free public search
Omnity made its public search engine free to everyone, offering semantic search across public datasets grouped into biomedicine, engineering, finance and law.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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