Kwaga develops semantic software intended to make email a productivity enhancer rather than a time sink. Its flagship product, WriteThat.Name, automatically updates a user's address book by extracting contact information from incoming messages. WriteThat.Name is currently available for Gmail and Google Apps users. Kwaga plans to add support for additional email clients such as Microsoft Outlook and to integrate with CRM software suites. The company was founded in 2008 and previously raised seed funding from Seedcamp and Kima Ventures. Kwaga has raised $1.55 million in a Series A from unnamed private investors advised by Financière Fonds Privés. Kwaga builds a smart email solution that automatically tags incoming messages with semantic metadata and extracts the meaningful parts into structured information to help users decide which emails to answer first. The product focuses on improving email management and prioritization through automated semantic tagging and extraction. Kwaga plans to monetize this semantic data via targeted advertising, offer Premium features, and pursue OEM partnerships. A privacy concern noted in the article is that emails must pass through Kwaga's servers, which may be an issue for some users. Seedcamp made a small early investment into the company, and the team is described as experienced engineers and product developers including CEO Philippe Laval and other senior hires with enterprise and linguistic backgrounds.

Total raised

$66M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jan 2012