delver - dotforge spring 2013
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DelverNatural language search for any app
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If your data lives here
But finding it’s like this
Delver solves your problem
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The quicker you answeryour questions,
your employees’ questions,your customers’ questions,
the more money everyone makes
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How many of each product did we sell in 2012?
SELECT name,COUNT(*) AS sales,FROM products JOIN ordersON products.id = orders.product_idWHERE YEAR(ordered_at) = 2012GROUP BY name;
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“How many of each product did we sell in 2012?”
Quicker, Simpler, Cheaper
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Delver’s Business Model
•Internal apps: intranet, line-of-business etc. Per-seat licensing. 2-3 figure sum per user.
•Public websites, mobile apps: pricing based on traffic, number of users or number of queries. Pennies per query.
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Market Size
•Business intelligence: $15+ billion
•Enterprise search: $1.5 - 2 billion
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Interest in Delver
•230+ signups
•Top story on Hacker News
•Interest from Shopify, Wolfram, Nielsen
•Potential academic collaborations
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Exits
•Autonomy: $10 billion to HP (oops)
•Siri: $200+ million to Apple
•Powerset: $100+ million to Microsoft
•InQuira: estimated $100+ million to Oracle
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Team Delver
• Thom Lawrence: 25 years of programming experience; run own software business for 4 years; tech lead for big clients at TechnoPhobia; worked on big data & realtime apps for Heathrow and Vodafone at Rockshore, a successful Sheffield startup.
• +1: actively engaging with potential cofounders this week, in place end of March.
• Large network of programmers, designers and project managers, so primed to grow team when funding is in place.
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