ClearForest was a software company that develops and markets text analytics and text mining solutions. Founded in 1998, ClearForest has its headquarters just outside of Boston and has development in Israel near Tel Aviv. It was acquired by Reuters in April, 2007. It now commercializes its services under the names Calais, OpenCalais, and OneCalais.
ClearForest was previously venture-backed; its last funding round was led by Greylock Ventures and c...
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ClearForest was a software company that develops and markets text analytics and text mining solutions. Founded in 1998, ClearForest has its headquarters just outside of Boston and has development in Israel near Tel Aviv. It was acquired by Reuters in April, 2007. It now commercializes its services under the names Calais, OpenCalais, and OneCalais.
ClearForest was previously venture-backed; its last funding round was led by Greylock Ventures and closed in 2005. Other investors included DB Capital Partners, Pitango, Walden Israel, Booz Allen, JP Morgan Partners and HarbourVest Partners.
On February 7, 2008 Reuters announced the launch of Open Calais, a named-entity recognition and semantic analysis service that uses ClearForest technology.
On April 30, 2007, Reuters announced that it would acquire ClearForest. Sources estimate the acquisition to be for $25 Million.
ClearForest offers several hosted solutions, including:
ClearForest also offers Text Analytics solutions targeted at...
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