Riya
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
Event year2009
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Riya recognized faces in photographs and tagged people automatically.
02 / Riya FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
The company redirected its efforts to visual-search commerce at Like.com. It subsequently announced the end of Riya; the source explicitly described the other business as continuing, so this was not a company-wide failure.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Recognition service closure announced
On 14 August founder Munjal Shah told users that Riya would close on 21 August.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Company shifted to visual-search commerce
- 02
Original face-tagging service ended