Saplo Raises Seed Funding For Semantic Text Analysis Technology

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Today we can proudly announce that Saplo has completed a $500.000 seed round for further development of a text analysis platform (API).

Founded in 2008, Saplo has grown on basis of sale incomes and research grants from the Swedish Government (i.e., VINNOVA). As sale efforts increased in 2010 we felt a strong need to bring in new competence in order to lift Saplo to the next level.

Among investors are several known names such as Professor Göran Grosskopf, Chairman of the Stichting INGKA Foundation (i.e, the parent company of the IKEA Group) and Martin Liljeberg, Founder of the SOVA chain of stores (Sweden’s largest chain of bed stores).

With new competence in primarily Sales, Finance, Economy and Management we are convinced that Saplo will progress faster and do so more efficiently.

We gladly accept feedback and requests regarding services offered by our API. For those of you who have ideas or concepts ready for development – please do not hesitate to sign up for API access. We will let you have access as soon as possible.

Saplo automatically analyzes trends during the Swedish election

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Today, the Swedish news site Ny Teknik (in English, New Technology) wrote about Saplo´s ability to automatically analyze what is written about Swedish parties and their leaders.

This kind of technology could play a major role in this years supervision of the election. To be able to instantly understand how important election issues are perceived on blogs and in social media, tools like this could be of great importance.

This summer Saplo will launch a free service, valanlys.se, that will monitor trends and debates on Twitter.

Read the full article at NyTeknik.se (Swedish)

Saplo talking about the semantic web and how to mimic the way people read

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

See the Swedish interview with Fredrik Hörte in Dagens Nyheter TV (Swedish)

Saplo speaking about automated text anlytics

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

See the interview with Saplo CEO Mattias Tyrberg at SVT Play (Swedish).

Saplo about complementing search technologies

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

According to Mattias Tyrberg and Fredrik Hörte at Saplo there is a demand for new and different search techniques, this despite the fact that Google is a unique and incredibly successful company. Saplo is based on research done by Sverker Sikström whom has developed a method for automatic analysis of text.

Read the full article in Exklusivt (Swedish)

Saplo releases trend report – Words of 2009

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Today Saplo releases a report concerning the most common words in Swedish press about the expectations for 2009.

Read more about the report in:
Metro (Swedish, external link)

Saplo talking about Sentiment Analysis API in Yahoo TV

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Saplo CEO Mattias Tyrberg says that it was great visiting the United States and he hopes that Saplo will establish an office in San Francisco within six months. Mattias was also very pleased with the attention Saplo products received.
“There are a lot of people interested in our technology that follows our progress with excitement” he says.

Indeed, it seems that the interest in Saplo technology has now spread outside Sweden. Mattias and Fredrik were interviewed by Yahoo TV when visiting Yahoo.

Saplo named one of the most interesting startups

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Swedens biggest economic paper, Dagens Industri, names Saplo one of the most interesting startups in Sweden to keep track of.

Saplo is the name of a Swedish company that analyzes texts for sites that want to be able to target ads better. The company was recently competing in the venture capital competition Seedcamp, but lost. Despite this, Saplos technology, to analyze the content on a website in similar way as a human do, is well worth keeping your eye on them.

The most intense week in my life

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Mattias Tyrberg, CEO at Saplo, back from Seedcamp in London, a kind of European Championship for IT-startups where Saplo competed with a text analyzing program.

Read more (IDG, Swedish, external link)

Read more (Computer Sweden, Swedish, external link)

Saplo back from London and Seedcamp Week

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Seedcamp finalists in the company Saplo doesn’t let the loss get in their way. Now they increase their effort on the Swedish IT-market.

Read more (Swedish, external link)