Excite (spelled and stylized as excite) is a collection of Internet sites and services owned by IAC Search & Media, which is a subsidiary of InterActive Corporation (IAC). Launched in 1994, it is an online service offering a variety of content, including an Internet portal, a search engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage. The content is collated from over 100 different sources. In the 1990s, i...
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Excite (spelled and stylized as excite) is a collection of Internet sites and services owned by IAC Search & Media, which is a subsidiary of InterActive Corporation (IAC). Launched in 1994, it is an online service offering a variety of content, including an Internet portal, a search engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage. The content is collated from over 100 different sources. In the 1990s, it was one of the most recognized brands on the Internet.
Excite was founded as Architext in 1994 by Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Ryan McIntyre, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried, who were all students at Stanford University. In July 1994 International Data Group paid them $100,000 to develop an online service. In January 1995, Vinod Khosla (himself a former Stanford student), a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, arranged a $250,000 first round backing for the project with $1.5 million in ten months...
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