Discover.ly: An app that makes social networking easier

We've all heard that what matters is not what you know, but who you know. Discover.ly want to strengthen your ability to know other people. Founded in San Francisco in October 2014, Discover.ly launched a free application with the same name embedded in Gmail, which shows the social accounts and updates for all mail contacts in the sidebar. Their goal is to use the commonalities between social media networks to make it easier to find connections between people and to promote successful social networks. Discover.ly's founder, Theodore Summe, says he uses technology to simplify the power of social media networks. "We have access to social network data, but the data is scattered across social networking sites or platforms," he explains. We can save users ' time by displaying data and information in one place. This is the concept of our products. "The technology requires users to download a Google Chrome browser plugin. In this way, users can access the social media of the mail contact's common friends. For example, discover.ly can allow users to browse LinkedIn accounts for a colleague of a Facebook common friend, or visit Facebook and LinkedIn account information for Twitter contacts. Discover.ly even estimates the information about friends, such as the number and type of social media interactions between friends. This means that the user can determine the quality of a relationship with a contact, and use the best friend relationship. Summe said: "Sales people know that the conversion rate of telemarketing is very low." If you can make appropriate introductions to the right people, your conversion rate will be greatly improved. "Summe's inspiration for discover.ly was in the past decade when he was doing mergers and acquisitions in Salesforce. He created social applications in his spare time, trying to maximize the value of social relationships. His friends in Salesforce like the idea, encouraging him to leave and devote himself to the development of the application. Under Salesforce and Investments including Atlas Venture, Summe received 750,000 of dollars in seed money and was put into work in 2013. After the application is launched, the technology's login volume increases by 5,300 active users per week. No matter how users use discover.ly, experts have accepted the idea. Cali Yost, a strategic expert at Madison, New Jersey, says the technology can turn social networking into a full calendar. "You have a chance to meet friends of your friends, which makes this application a valuable tool," she said. "The next step in Summe is to enhance the company's dataset and increase the number of searches." He said the 6-member company had recently started a second round of 1.5 million dollars in financing. As for income, Summe and investors are looking to turn discover.ly into a corporate workerWith the possibility, and charge the use fee of the enterprise. He's not sure when that idea will happen, but at least he doesn't have to worry about how to connect with the right people. (via entrepreneur, fast Carp exclusively compiled, reproduced please indicate the source)