Greplin provides a search service that indexes users' online social and messaging services—Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and others—after the user authorizes access, making those accounts searchable in minutes. The product launched in beta but initially crashed; founder Daniel Gross paused new signups and rebuilt the backend from the ground up. The rebuilt service was reported to perform well for the couple thousand people who had access during beta. The company planned to open to everyone on its waiting list and go public in the next few days. Greplin has a revenue plan with a freemium approach: many services index for free, business-oriented services like Yammer require a premium upgrade, and heavy indexing may incur charges or users can trim indexed content. The team is very small—about five people—with three hires in the previous weeks. Greplin indexes data across users' cloud accounts and presents a Google-like search box to find tweets (including DMs), Facebook messages, Google Voice voicemail transcriptions and SMS, Gmail, Dropbox, LinkedIn and other services. It provides real-time results as you type and uses OAuth and provider APIs for authorization so it never sees third-party site credentials. The service is free for most features and charges for premium capabilities such as searching inside attachments. Greplin went through the Y Combinator incubator; founder Daniel Gross moved from Jerusalem to California to participate. Cofounder Robby Walker joined Gross; Walker is noted in the article as founder of Zenter (acquired by Google) and of Y Combinator. The company has attracted investor interest and early capital to build its product and grow usage.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

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Equity

Latest activity

Feb 2011