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Vivisimo’s Founders Interviewed: Raul Valdes-Perez and Jerome Pesenti

March 21, 2008

In mid-March, Vivisimo received an infusion of $4 million from North Atlantic Capital. Vivisimo has emerged as a full-scale “behind the firewall” search provider. The company landed the high-profile search-and-retrieval deal with the US Federal government for USA.gov, the public-facing portal for government information. Then, the company inked a deal with Interwoven, the content management company, to provide search and content processing system for the Interwoven CMS system.

Some pundits see Vivisimo as specialist vendor. That view of the company is incorrect. My sources tell me that Vivisimo is finding itself invited to bid on a range of commercial, government, and association projects. Executives at some well-known, high-profile search firms have asked me about Vivisimo. In my experience, this means Vivisimo is doing something right.

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under feature, federated search, interview, search | 1 Comment