Companies, Organizations & Business Start-Ups
We hope to provide a list of companies that are active in both researching and developing recommender systems. This list can help to identify potential employers.
For now, a good starting point is those companies that sponsor the ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems, and that organize the RecSys Challenges.
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News
Yahoo! acquires ‘Artifact’ and integrates its Recommendation Engine into Yahoo! News
‘Artifact‘ was a news aggregation platform founded in 2023 by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In January 2024, Artifact announced that it would discontinue all its services, including its personalized news platform. A few days ago, Yahoo! announced that it had acquired Artifact. According to Yahoo, Artifact is to be integrated into Yahoo, […]
YouTube announces a customizable “For You” recommendations section on channels
YouTube announced on X (Twitter) that they are about to introduce a new “For You” section in channels’ home tabs. These tabs recommend a mix of content from the particular channel and recommendations based on a user’s watch history. YouTube further asks creators to update their settings and select appropriate formats before YouTube rolls out […]
Die Maschine Empfiehlt / Recommended by algorithms (Press Release Siegen U)
The University of Siegen published a news article (see screenshot) and press release about my work on self-learning automated recommender systems as-a-service. Professor Dr. Jöran Beel aims to give smaller companies the opportunity to use a good recommendation service. He is developing a self-learning software that learns to generate the best recommendations. We‘re used to […]
Craydel raises $1 million to grow its higher education platform and recommender system
Kenyan edtech startup Craydel, a platform for comparing colleges, course options and tuition fees, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round that will go toward improving its search and recommendation technology and enhancing its online resources. With the new funding, Craydel is set to embark on a new path to build its search and […]
WhizzCo predicts for each page view, which recommendation provider is best
Today, I stumbled upon WhizzCo, a start-up with a great idea. WhizzCo tackles the problem that there is no single-best content recommendation-engine or advertisement platform to monetize your website. Sometimes, Google Adsense may be best, sometimes a service like Plista may be best. WhizzCo promises to analyze for you, which platform generates the most revenue […]
‘River’, a privacy-preserving news recommender system app, raises $10 million [Kyle Wiggers @ VentureBeat]
River today launched its eponymous social media app, which is designed to organize conversations into streams of shareable stories. The startup also announced a $10.4 million round it will use to expand its workforce and further product R&D. […] After founding Wander, the social diary app Yahoo acquired in 2014, [Jeremy] Fisher cofounded River in 2018 […]
Fraunhofer plans to create a center for AI (including RecSys) for the energy sector
According to PV Magazine, the German Fraunhofer Association is planning to create a new centre for artificial intelligence for energy systems. The goal of the center is to automate processes relating to electricity, heating, and also mobility. PV magazine explicitly mentions that this includes recommender systems. Currently, Fraunhofer employs 15 researchers in this field. The […]