More Money for Research Retriever KnowledgeHound

Chicago-based research portal KnowledgeHound has raised $2.7m in Series A funding, and says it will use the money to recruit for sales and technology roles.

The company was founded in 2013 by former Procter & Gamble Consumer Insights Manager Kristi Zuhlke (pictured) and technologist Andrew Soep, and uses natural-language search and data visualization techniques to help marketers and researchers find, view and analyze qual and quant information from their existing databases and files. Clients pay an annual subscription fee which rises as more documents are hosted on the platform.

At present, KnowledgeHound has ten employees - it plans to almost double this, according to www.chicagotribune.com . The latest round of investment, which followed $1.2m raised in July 2015, included Seyen Capital, Gaspar Global Ventures, woman entrepreneur backer InvestHER Ventures and BRJ Ventures.

Web site: www.knowledgehound.com .