History

Grapeshot founders started Muscat Limited in 1992, and grew it over five years as one of the first suppliers of internet search engines and enterprise wide intranet systems. Muscat powered BBC, Reuters, Shell, Nokia, NASA, United Nations and UK Government websites.

Mission critical, and with scale

Grapeshot is their latest search product, already powering new Web 2.0 applications for IBM and large billion-dollar revenue US customers

Founder Team

Dr. Martin Porter

Dr Martin Porter has devoted much of his working life (1980-2006) to the implementation of Information Retrieval (IR) systems, in particular, IR systems based on the probabilistic model.

Martin Porter is well known for his Porter Stemmer algorithm, used by almost all search engine vendors today (including IBM, Microsoft and Google).

Martin is a winner of the Strix Award, "for outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval".

John Snyder

John Snyder teamed up with Martin Porter in 1992 and started Muscat, the natural language search software company which commercialised "concept-based" searching prior to the advent of other more recent Bayesian-based search vendors.

John built up a strong international customer base before negotiating the sale of Muscat in 1997 to The Dialog Corporation, the large aggregator of online business information, for $15 million.

John has been an active member of the Cambridge high-technology community, chairing the 5th Cambridge Enterprise Conference, and co-founding the venture research company Library House. He is a Board Member of EEDA (East of England Development Agency) and also "Entrepreneur In Residence" at Cambridge University.

Press

Grapeshot Limited has been operating in stealth mode for the past four years (2002 to 2006) - building the new technology and getting Grapeshot benchmarked by industry leading systems integrators.

Commercial sales started in late 2005, with our main customers located in both USA and UK.

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Jobs

Grapeshot is hiring. We are after intelligent focused people who learn quickly and get excited by the personalisation and contextual intelligence opportunities our technology offers.

We have a global attitude to our business. We are interested in hearing from people in US, Asian, Middle East and European markets.

Check out the positions we need to fill!

Contact Us

Grapeshot is headquartered in Cambridge UK - Europe's largest technology cluster.

Cambridge University has a deep research base - and is home to much of the probabilistic algorithmic work that Grapeshot draws upon (Computer Lab and Microsoft Research Labs). The Grapeshot founders are both past alumni and staff at the University. The majority of software engineers at Grapeshot are Cambridge alumni too.

Grapeshot Limited, 12D Kings Parade, Cambridge , CB2 1SJ, United Kingdom