Command E: A Cross App Search Tool?
June 3, 2020
There are two ways to search on a devices: using a search engine or the device’s search function. As of now, a tool does not exist that searches across an entire device. TechCrunch shares that searching might change with, “Command E Raises $4.3 Million To Build The Ultimate Cross-App Search Tool.” Command E is a San Francisco based tech startup that has worked on unified desktop search tool for the past two years. The tool is designed to search across every app loaded on a device.
Command E was founded by Tom Uebel and Ben Standefer with the goal to address new enterprise problems have arisen, particularly the need for across the board communication between all devices and application. Standefer and Uebel discovered multiple problems with software integration and it inspired them to develop a universal enterprise search solution.
Uebel said:
“ ‘Enterprise search has traditionally been this big bulky IT integration, we’ve changed it to where you can download it and have all your accounts connected and your data synced in five minutes,’ CEO Tom Uebel tells TechCrunch. ‘As the costs of building purpose-built tools keeps coming down, I think you’re going to see a lot of really great software continue to proliferate. Part of our thesis is that you’re going to need a layer to glue them all together in a nice way.’”
Command E’s nice layer of glue raised $4.3 billion in seed funding. The company plans on using the money to hire more team members.
Command E wants their search tool to be available as a simple keyboard shortcut that seamlessly connects and searches every enterprise service. Data integration is not Command E’s only trouble, they also are working on data encryption with the search tool.
If Command E is successful will they sell their tool to enterprise system developers or as a separate extension that is not part of the bigger package?
Whitney Grace, June 3, 2020
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