Key people Gary Read (CEO) Founded 2012 Headquarters London, San Francisco | Type of business Technology Startup | |
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Founders Matthew Painter, (CTO)
Andrew Fogg, (VP Product) | ||
import.io is a web-based platform for extracting data from websites without writing any code. The tool allows people to converted unstructured web data into a structured format for use in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Retail Price Monitoring, Store Locators as well as academic and other research. It is also used extensively by investigative journalists.
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Users enter a URL and the app attempts to automatically extract the data that it thinks you need, if the automatic extraction does not provide exactly what you need, a point and click interface allows you to "train" the app what to extract. The data that users collect is stored on Import.io’s cloud servers and can be downloaded as CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, JSON or accessed via API. Users can easily integrate live web data into their own applications or third party analytics and visualization software. Thousands of data sources can be extracted simultaneously.
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History
The company has offices in Los Gatos, CA and London. The company was founded by Andrew Fogg and Matthew Painter. Import.io incorporated in June 2012 and launched the first version of its SaaS app in April 2016.
Awards
Import.io has won a number of startup awards including Best Startup by O'Reilly Strata Santa Clara, GigaOM and Web Summit.
Funding
Import.io has raised a total of $17.3M from its founders along with Angel Investors David Axmark (co-founder of MySQL) and Louis Monier (co-founder of AltaVista) as well as Venture Capital firms Touchstone Innovations, Oxford Capital, Delin Capital, OpenOcean, Jerry Yang's (founder of Yahoo) fund AME Cloud Ventures and Wellington Partners.
Features
import.io has a number of features: