denmark 1999 founder rasmus refer headquarters new york city united states area served worldwide key people rasmus refer co founder ceo j rgen trygved co founder products b2b search engine subsidiaries accoona website www.masterseek.com masterseek corp. is a b2b business to business search engine founded in denmark in 1999 . 1 masterseek now encompasses 175 million business profiles 346 million websites and 450 million contacts of which 216 million are linkedin members thus making masterseek the largest commercial database in the world . contents 1 founding 2 finances 3 statistics 4 acquiring accoona 5 technology 6 sponsorships 7 management 8 see also 9 references 10 external links founding edit masterseek was founded in denmark by rasmus refer in 1999 . 1 their denmark headquarters is located at bredgade 29 dk 1260 kbh . k and they also have a current headquarters in new york city at 82 wall street . 2 according to its executives masterseek utilizes a business model based on an annual business subscription fee of usd 149 in return for which subscribers receive full editing control over their corporate profile content and advertising and control over widgets and embedded video among other factors . 3 finances edit as of june 2008 accountancy firm horwart international had approximated the raw market value of the masterseek company at 150 million . 4 the company remains privately owned but also in june 2008 it sold 10 % of its authorized stocks to a range of foreign investors . 4 the company announced on january 31 2009 that they company was again offering a limited number of shares for sale in order to raise 4 6 million in order to gain a listing on the swedish marketplace aktietorget . founder refer also announced there were plans for an ipo . 5 by october 2009 they had signed with the swedish based company thenberg & kinde fondkommission ab for financing . 6 on july 11 2016 masterseek announced that the company is planning on getting listed on nasdaq . this listing on the nasdaq is to provide capital for further expansion in the rapidly growing markets of latin america africa and asia . 7 the doney law firm is assisting with the listing on the nasdaq capital market . statistics edit in june 2008 the company stated it had 50 million company profiles from over 75 countries and handled 90 000 b2b searches daily . 1 5 8 the company stated they had 82 million profiles on march 21 2011 with an average of 300 000 new profiles added monthly . 3 acquiring accoona edit on october 30 2008 it was announced that masterseek had acquired the b2b search engine accoona . 1 9 the search engine had been fairly successful in the united states and china 10 where it had an exclusive partnership with china daily . 11 on august 3 2006 time had dubbed accoona one of its 50 best websites illustrating how the search engine used artificial intelligence to understand the meaning of keyword queries . 12 accoona had run into difficulties and gone defunct by early october 2008 withdrawing its ipo . 11 after masterseek bought the remaining search engine codes domain name and assets 1 accoona was integrated with masterseek and re launched in the usa and china . it was launched in europe in january 2009 . 10 accoona information was also integrated into the masterseek search engine . 1 technology edit the masterseek search engine relies on web crawlers that automatically collect and sort company details from the internet . 8 searches can look up company profiles contact information and descriptions of products and services . searches can be global national regional or involved local markets . hits are listed by relevance according to search terms . there are different search options including a specific product search company searches and people searches . results can be displayed in most languages . 6 the search engine also offers masterrank a point system for ranking corporate websites . 13 sponsorships edit on july 5 2007 masterseek announced they were cosponsors to team csc denmark s cycling team beginning with the team s involvement in the tour de france . the masterseek name began to be displayed on the team s apparel that week with the tour s start in london . 2 management edit rasmus refer founder and director see also edit accoona b2b search engines references edit a b c d e f hartzer bill november 5 2008 . b2b search engine accoona acquired by masterseek . billhartzer.com search engine marketing . retrieved 2011 05 08 . a b masterseek cosponsors team csc . global business profiles . may 4 2011 . retrieved 2011 05 08 . a b masterseek expected to release beta version of search engine . wireprnews . march 21 2011 . retrieved 2011 05 08 . a b search engine is looking for strategic investors . reuters . june 27 2008 . retrieved 2011 05 08 . first1 missing last1 in authors list help a b masterseek.com is planning for an ipo . reuters . january 31 2009 . retrieved 2011 05 08 . first1 missing last1 in authors list help a b morgan kc october 27 2009 . masterseek a global business search engine . seochat . retrieved 2011 05 08 . masterseek listing on nasdaq . masterseek . october 9 2016 . retrieved 2016 10 09 . a b global business search engine to strengthen its advertising network for b2b search . reuters . june 26 2008 . retrieved 2011 05 08 . almost dead search engine accoona bought by denmark s masterseek . paid content . november 2008 . retrieved 2011 05 08 . a b johnson nathania november 5 2008 . accoona acquired by masterseek . search engine watch . retrieved 2011 05 08 . a b krangel eric october 3 2008 . dead search engine accoona officially dead . business insider . retrieved 2011 05 08 . buechner maryanne august 3 2006 . 50 coolest websites 2006 . time . retrieved 2011 05 08 . masterseek corp. . businessweek . retrieved 2011 05 08 . cite error a list defined reference named shareholdersdk is not used in the content see the help page . cite error a list defined reference named businessdk is not used in the content see the help page . cite error a list defined reference named businessdk cheats is not used in the content see the help page . cite error a list defined reference named fise is not used in the content see the help page . cite error a list defined reference named usti is not used in the content see the help page . external links edit official website masterseek on twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title masterseek & oldid 744337109 categories internet search enginesweb service providersinternet properties established in 1999business services companies established in 1999online companiessoftware companies established in 1999hidden categories pages with reference errorspages with incorrect ref formattingcs1 errors missing author or editor navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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