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June 11, 2006
Yakaz : A Euro Classifieds Mashup
Six month old Yakaz has tapped seed funding from Qualis SCA (a French investment company) for its local classified ads search business. It has visual aids such as GoogleMaps and supports English, French, and German searches.
Notable is its use of Exalead's search engine (the same company that is inolved in the high profile European project called Quaero that aims to outdo Google for web and content search). Exalead is also backed by Qualis.
.. more below the jump about the founders and links to French trade press reports.
Founders of the six month old firm are two former AOL France executives, Mathurin Ducastelle who headed the premium mobile services business at AOL France for five years, and Frédéric Mahé former head of R&D at AOL France. Heading up technical development is Sajid Fayyaz former chief geek at Plurimedia (Lagardère Active) who has also developed sites for Paris-Première and Skyrock (recently acquired for a speculated €100M by French buyout firm AXA Private Equity).
Read - Yakaz localise les petites annonces avec Google Maps (01net)
Read - Petites annonces: levée de fonds pour Yakaz.fr (VNUnet)
Updated: Read - Yakaz.fr boucle un premier (techcrunch Francais)
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