A new search engine raises $ 1.1 million to allow obsessive fans to dive into the rabbit holes on the Internet

Zahra Naqafi, 26, grew up as a fan of a fan in 2010.

This was the era of Tumblr and Twitter. It would have been awake all night to break the dates of the version of Marvel or the movements of One Direction. In the end, I got 250,000 collective followers on the two platforms. “She taught me the early web holes of the magic feeling not only to consume culture, but to contribute to this,” she told Techcrunch.

She continued to start a 12 -year -old company, study the history of art in Colombia, and then became an investor for consumers at Headline Ventures. (You also write popularity Consumer newsletter.))

Now, I started something new: SciencePeople search platform for search and discovering Internet concerns. The company has already raised $ 1.1 million of financing before a seed. It is scheduled to come out of the ghost on October 6.

A few months ago, she left her job at the title and decided to return to the beginning. I remembered those early days to photograph the rabbit holes on the Internet and was dismayed when I realized that all these research she spent hours in the pleasure of pleasure had disappeared. She said: “How can I have spent more than 500 hours reading about Marvel films for 17 years and do not follow any one platform for consumption,” she said.

She said that Lauer provides the tools that she wished, “her presence when Vandom felt at home before the Internet became broken and hated.” It allows consumers to download the rabbit holes, providing bonds for fans, interpretations, cultural context, and Easter eggs. According to my standing, it builds a graphic fee for obsessions; Fandom and Stan updates in summary; It gives monthly reports to users about what their obsession is at any time.

“You can enlarge one theory or reduce and know how all Fandoms call”. “It is like playing with knowledge rather than just consuming it.”

NAQVI is now my mother on how the product works. She also refused to share any photos, saying that the official Lore launch until next year. “It is our own sauce,” she said about technology that operates the product.

However, she said that Fandom’s rapid consumption has not changed online, although new social media channels have appeared to users to interact. She said: “If there is anything, Vandom is more fragmented than ever, and as you get older, joy is more difficult to find time.” As an investor, she started realizing that you might not need any other social tools for the masses.

“There are many places for YAP,” she said, adding that many social media these days aim to obtain rapid dopamine visits or get rid of “IPAD’s behavior”. She said that the next version of social media will be quieter, and based on passion and memory.

“Lore is our attempt to rebuild the Library of Alexandria for the era of Vandom.”

NAQVI is a single founder and has already made her first tenant: Marketing Director and Engineer. She described the process of collecting donations as “obsessed”. The global village led the tour with the participation of Prefursor Ventures.

“Lore builds the product awaiting Fandoms,” Charles Hudson, the administrative partner of Prefursor Ventures, told Techcrunch. “We imagine that it is the primary application of Fandoms to collect, share and deepen their association with the things they love.”

Nafi said that the new capital will be used to attract more users and continue to run the product test.

She said: “We have finished experimenting with more than 1,000 entry, about 24,000 search operations, eight days of group days, or about 200 hours directly from the depths of the concerns,” she said. “This level of participation is a kind of madness and proves the need for what we build.”

Science is not without competition. In the era of searching engines for artificial intelligence, she said that people had attracted comparisons to confusion, while others notice that it provides the same job as Reddit or Wikipedia. She said, “But none of these spaces were built with Vandum’s position in mind.”

“We are building an area of ​​Lurker-Purst,” continued, describing Lore as “interactive, colorful and designed for play. And hopes that Lore will return some joy to the Internet and create a place where the obsession is not embarrassing, but sacred.

She said: “The consumer does not always have artificial intelligence to be an agent who helps you shopping, glorious assistant or other social application.” “There are many innovative methods and the first joy for their application, and science proves this.”