Guided navigation and search for the e-commerce era.
Endeca’s proprietary MDEX engine delivered genuine technical differentiation over keyword-search incumbents just as online retail needed faceted discovery.
We backed Steve Papa as a technically fluent founder-CEO who could pair deep product conviction with disciplined enterprise sales execution — culminating in Oracle's ~$1.1B acquisition in 2011.
Founder testimonial
“The secret weapon of entrepreneurs is persistence in the face of obstacles - Steve Schlenker personifies the same as a partner in build the business. No other firm participated in as many of the funding rounds at Endeca and he has been a stalwart of support in our mission at Parallel Wireless.”
