Daring

Daring tells you which product to get by analyzing owner ratings online, saving you hours of research.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2011
  • Employees 3
  • Website daring.is

Company Summary

People waste hours researching products online before buying—15 hours for TVs alone. Reviews take forever to read, search is full of spam and magazines use tech jargon. Our crowdsourced product ranking asks what matters to you, crunches owner ratings and shows you the best. We solve a problem every shopper has. A third of public beta users are spending 14 minutes on the web version, higher than FB's daily average, and 10% click on buy links.

Team

  • Manish Vij
    CEO

    Manish cofounded Anconia and NetStudio, was a program manager for Microsoft Word, and earned a Regents Scholarship and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley. NetStudio won Internet World’s Best of Show and its second product built a million users in 9 months.

  • Aaron Snow
    VP Engineering

    Dev manager at www.birthdayinabox.com, Microsoft program manager, tech director for Obama PA ’08 voter protection, A.B. CS Harvard, J.D. Columbia

  • Sekhar Narayanaswami
    VP Engineering

    Employee #7 at Telegent (semiconductors), early employee at Aeluros (semiconductors), M.S./Ph.D. EECS UC Berkeley, Regents Scholar, two patents

  • Manish Vij

Advisors

  • Jerry Petruzzelli, KL Gates
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Kai Huang, cofounder, RedOctane (Guitar Hero - acquired)
    Unconfirmed
    Ari Engelberg, cofounder, Stamps.com (went public)
    Unconfirmed

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