Endeca was a software company headquartered in

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, that sold

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search,

customer experience management Customer experience, sometimes abbreviated to CX, is the totality of cognitive, affective, sensory, and behavioral responses of a customer during all stages of the consumption process including pre-purchase, consumption, and post-purchase sta ...

enterprise search Enterprise search is software technology for searching data sources internal to a company, typically intranet and database content. The search is generally offered only to users internal to the company. Enterprise search can be contrasted with web ...

and

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applications. Endeca was founded in 1999 as Optigrab. It was a privately held company, backed by

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investment from Bessemer, DN Capital founders Steve Schlenker and Nenad Marovac, Ampersand, GGV,

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and

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. On October 18, 2011,

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announced its acquisition of Endeca for $1.075B. Endeca's product provided

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in the context of

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and online libraries. It was considered a leader in the enterprise search and information access market by

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firms

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, IDC, and

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