Company description
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Topicmarks is your reading machine. It summarizes electronic documents in seconds, so that you only have to read a little. But it also extracts all facts into your personal knowledge base, so that you will always remember everything.
Search engines are so effective that the human problem is no longer to find information, but to process it. With Topicmarks, people can simply keep learning and linking facts and information without having to do any of the tedious manual searching, downloading, skimming and storign of new publications themselves.
Team
The core team consists of three experienced entrepreneurs:
- Karl Dawson, CTO and lead inventor, brings years of experience in natural language processing and in developing highly flexible software architectures for both startups and corporates over thirty years.
- Jaromir Dzialo, COO, founded several websites in his native Poland and has over fifteen years experience in management of user experiences, userfriendliness and efficient operations flow for web businesses.
- Roland Siebelink, CEO, brings eighteen years of international experience in marketing, strategy and general management for both startups and larger corporates. He has been in the Internet business since 1992.
Business model
Targeted towards college students in need of help with writing papers, Topicmarks will make money through premium subscriptions, some context-sensitive ads for free users plus licensing fees for our data repositories.
Competitive advantage
Topicmarks has a unique human-machine collaboration approach to text summarization and fact extraction, a patent for which is pending at the US patent office.