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Overview of Seman.cs3 May 2015
Overview of Seman.cs3
May 2015
We operate the world’s largest e-commerce product and price database
• We extract, structure, normalize and organize product metadata from over 27,000 retailers
• Our database is the largest, with over 60 million unique products, 40-‐50% of which have UPCs
• We monitor over 4 billion product price-‐points and other demand signals
• We help drive price transparency across retailers by displaying all available price points for a product
Sample of retailers covered Key features of our database
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We use intelligent algorithms to build our database
• Our product rank feature takes into account a product’s site rank, sales rank, price change frequency, user scores, and a variety of other signals that help determine product demand
Product ranking
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Product matching
• Our database has only unique products – each product is given a unique ID which is the retained across retailer websites.
Intelligent re-‐crawl
• We repeatedly crawl websites for product and price updates at regular intervals, efficiently
Real-‐.me insights
• We can monitor products directly and issue push noBficaBons if a product’s price or product rank changes
Our fully-automated algorithms process more than 10 million e-commerce products every day
Crawl
Extract
Normalize
Categorize
Disambiguate
Merge
Index
Update
SemanBcs3 automated product data extracBon cycle
We have a 1000-‐node distributed system handling 10TB/day Processing ~10m products/day in a fully automated, con.nuous pipeline
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Our customers derive critical business insights using our data
• Customers extract significant compe..ve insights for their business: – Monitor prices for product models, brands, categories across websites
– Monitor compeBtor catalog changes to obtain insights on product introduc.ons, gaps in catalogs, etc.
– Enrich UPC inventory with our product metadata (product descrip.on, images, specifica.ons, etc.)
– Create innovaBve shopping soluBons by aggrega.ng product and price data across retailers
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Customers are highly sa.sfied with our service
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“ You have the most comprehensive dataset.” – Co-‐Founder, Online shopping marketplace
“ You have very good data coverage and the data is nicely cleaned up.” – Head of Products, Leading technology startup
“ Great from a service perspec.ve! Very knowledgeable and responsive support team.” – VP Engineering, Shopping ApplicaBon
“Seman.cs3 provides the highest quan.ty and quality product feeds that allows my users to browse thousands of products ” –Founder and CEO, UlBmateGiSGuide App
“The product works as expected, and the response from your team has been very good. In terms of partnerships, it's the most painless one that we have. The value to our customers is enormous and the data quality is excellent ” – Director of Products, Trov, Inc.
Feedback from SemanBcs3 customers
We are a multinational company with deep technical background
• Funded in 2012 by Y Combinator, the world’s leading startup incubator and accelerator – Access to leading advisors and investors
Y Combinator funded
Global presence
Deep team exper.se
• Offices in San Francisco, Singapore and Bengaluru – Provides for 24X7 customer connec.vity and support
• Employees with prior experience working in leading technology start-‐ups and corpora.ons, consul.ng firms: – Ability to solve complex technical issues. – Professional approach to mee.ng customer requirements
Rapid growth • Rapid growth experienced since incep.on (2011):
– 150+ ac.ve customers – Profitable within first year of opera.on
Contact us
• We are best reached at [email protected]
• You can drop by our San Francisco office any.me – 860B Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
• Visit our website semanBcs3.com to learn more
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