Company description
"Search the best of the web in a click-free search"
The internet has grown more and more complex and more than often a search for something leads us to not only search the major engines of the web, but also the other major online destinations that hold our video information, image information, shopping information, news and much more.
We believe some search goals require a more multi-dimensional approach to finding deep information that we usually end up hunting for or just never think of looking for in the first place. LeapFish searches everywhere and conveniently surprises you with relevant information that touches upon all angles of a great search in this day and age.
We've created the first multi-dimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world. Our goal is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet's most valuable destinations for each users search, in one single simple shot. Catch a useful video when you weren't looking for one, see the latest news and blogs on a topic you're searching for, or find a variety of deals on a gadget you need and more when you use LeapFish.
To learn more about the LeapFish Search Platform contact us by visiting our contact page.
Team
Founder & CEO
Ben Behrouzi founded DotNext in 2006 and serves as CEO of the company. Behrouzi has over 12 years in building and managing successful start-ups, building management teams, developing core technology infrastructure and leading product design and architecture. An aggressive entrepreneur, Behrouzi brings a solid track record of developing profitable and high growth oriented online business products and services. Behrouzi is responsible for the overall direction and strategy of the DotNext family of companies.
Prior to founding DotNext, Behrouzi co-founded Reply.com in June of 2001 and lead the company as CTO and Executive Vice President, leading the full detailed architecture and engineering of Reply.com's service products and state-of-the-art technology infrastructure. Behrouzi strategically developed and utilized the company's complete line of services and technology platform to help lead the company from 0 in revenues with boot-strapped funding to $17M in venture capital in 2005 and $30M in revenues in 2006. Behrouzi produced over 20 multi-million dollar profitable service provider products and services, the Reply.com website, as well as an enterprise team coupled with a technology infrastructure that drove the company's great success.
Behrouzi is a frequent consultant for young founders and startup organizations in the San Francisco bay area and enjoys providing guidance in startup architecture, agile software engineering and scalable technology infrastructure. Behrouzi studied Philosophy at the University of California at Davis and is always looking ahead to building the next big innovation.
Director, Product DotNext Inc.
Behzad Behrouzi serves as the company's Director of Product and has been with DotNext since the inception of the company. Behrouzi is responsible for the strategic planning and development of all software, applications and websites for the company's complete line of businesses. Behrouzi has deep product development and management experience, most recently developing innovative products and applications in the technology space of neurosurgery. As head of product development and research for the thermodynamics arm of the department of neurosurgery at San Diego Children's Hospital, Behrouzi lead the development of ground-breaking applications in safety, data analysis and efficacy of various new procedures.
Behrouzi holds a bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering and enjoys taking on the toughest of engineering challenges.
VP, Sales DotNext Inc.
Scott Leese serves as the company's Director of Sales and has been with DotNext since July of 2007. Leese has over 9 years in senior sales leadership management for major privately held companies and commands a relentless commitment to corporate achievement and growth. Most recently, Leese lead Reply.com, the leading online lead generation portal for large life decisions, in building and leading the largest real estate sales team comprised within the company. His successful efforts helped forge the largest revenue vertical of the company. Currently, Leese oversees and is responsible for all sales efforts for DotNext and serves to deliver consistent growth in all divisions.
Leese is a graduate of Arizona State University's Masters Program and may sometimes be spotted enjoying an early morning of surfing.
Director, Marketing DotNext Inc.
Mark Kithcart serves as the company's Director of Marketing and has been with DotNext since December of 2008. Mark has over 17 years in leadership, management and marketing for major public companies such as Agilent Technologies and Bechtel Corporation as well as multiple startup companies.
Most recently, Mark was the Director of Online Marketing for an internet startup specializing in search engine marketing and optimization and has a passion for creating communities, conversations and authority with integrity in the social media space. At DotNext Mark oversees, and is responsible for, all online and offline marketing efforts and building solid relationships with the users of the DotNext's family of companies.
Mark has a degree in Engineering from Cal Poly and is a graduate of USF's MBA Program and can be found online creating communities and conversations that enable the creation of value and progress.
Business model
LeapFish is a multimedia search aggregator that retrieves results from several of the top search portals, including Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Blogs, Videos, Shopping and other popular search engines. Unique, fresh, new, a lifeline to a breadth of relevant information. That is what LeapFish is for the user. LeapFish was launched to address the increased flow of new, abundant and relevant information through empowering Internet users with a unique, bold and radically simple way of accessing the web in a single search. LeapFish consolidates fragmented information from multiple sources and major web portals like Google, Ebay, YouTube and numerous social media outlets (blogs and social networks) and breaks it into simple and wider reaching results for the user
LeapFish's purpose is to gather, organize and render the most relevant information from the internet's most valuable destinations for each user search entry, in one single search.
The search engines obtains its notability by how they display their results. LeapFish does not combine and reorder search results. It allows the user to set what and who they want to obtain results from. FastCompany Robert Scoble, Mercury News and others have deemed LeapFish as an innovative new search engine pushing the Power of Search 2.0. Ben Behrouzi the Co founder of LeapFish.com is a serial entrepenuer from the bay area. Prior to DotNext Behrouzi co-founded Reply.com at the age of 20, a leading lead generation portal for service professionals in real estate, automotive, home improvement and lending. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief of Product, Behrouzi lead the company in the full detailed architecture and engineering of Reply.com's service products and state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, working to grow the company to multi-million annual revenues and over $17 million in funding. Ben Behrouzi is a frequent consultant for young founders and startup organizations in the San Francisco bay area and has been featured on FastCompany TV, NBC, Fox Business News, MercuryNews and other networks and publications.
LeapFish.com is a privately held corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton California, 45 minutes east of San Francisco.