Hakia Picks Up Another $5 Million; Total $21 Million

NY-based semantic search engine Hakia is announcing a new round of funding today in the amount of $5 million bringing the total funding to $21 million to-date. The new investment comes from current shareholder Prokom Investments S.A. Hakia notes that the new funds will be instrumental to hakia.com as it builds a semantic advertising platform and a European datacenter.

We’ve written about Hakia before including their demo at the NY Tech Meetup which I have embedded below.

I stand firm that hakia is a better solution than Mahalo and could actually be stronger than Wikia Search hopes to be. It’s unfortunate that they haven’t found the right avenues for promotion and buzz generation so far. I also think they need to figure out marketing messages for the technical people and for the mainstream users.