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Endeca

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Endeca Technologies Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryInformation technology
Information access
Founded1999
HeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Steve Papa[1][2]
(CEO)
ParentOracle Corporation

Endeca was a software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that sold eCommerce search, customer experience management, enterprise search and business intelligence applications.

Endeca was founded in 1999 as Optigrab[3]. It was a privately held company, backed by venture capital investment from Bessemer, DN Capital founders Steve Schlenker and Nenad Marovac,[4] Ampersand,[5] GGV, In-Q-Tel, Intel, SAP and Venrock.[citation needed]

On October 18, 2011, Oracle Corporation announced its acquisition of Endeca for $1.075B.[6]

Endeca's product provided faceted search in the context of electronic commerce[7] and online libraries.[8] It was considered a leader in the enterprise search and information access market by industry analyst firms Gartner,[9] IDC,[10] and Forrester Research[11]

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  3. ^ "Endeca lands more than $10M in funding rounds - Boston Business Journal".
  4. ^ Sawers, Paul (2018-01-25). "DN Capital raises $247 million fund for early-stage startups in Europe and the U.S." VentureBeat. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  5. ^ "Endeca Technologies (A) - Case - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School".
  6. ^ Farrell, Michael B. (2011-10-18). "Oracle buys Endeca". Boston.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  7. ^ Briggs, Bill (2009-07-30). "Who puts the 'e' in e-commerce". InternetRetailer.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  8. ^ "Toward the Next Gen Catalog". ALA TechSource. 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  9. ^ "Gartner Positions Endeca in Leaders Quadrant of 2009 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant Report". TMCNet. 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  10. ^ "Endeca Shortlisted as One of Top Search Vendors by Leading Market Research Firm (Press Release)". Reuters. 2009-09-21. Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  11. ^ "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Search, Q2 2008". Forrester Research. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2011-10-18.