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What Company Is Offering:
Evri is a team of superstar engineers and product developers with deep expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and most importantly, building great products. Located in the historic Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, they are building a team passionate about innovation, great user experiences and having fun.


Who Is Backing Them:

The company is led by CEO Neil Roseman. Prior to joining Evri, Neil spent 9 1/2 years at Amazon.com (1998 - 2007), most as a Vice President of Technology. Most recently Neil was responsible for Amazon.com's Digital Media Technologies and Amazon’s Global Subscriptions Platform. In this role Neil was responsible for product and software development for efforts such Search Inside the Book ™, Amazon Unbox Digital Video, and the recently launched Amazon MP3 service. The Subscriptions Platform, which Neil designed and built with a small team, is used globally by Amazon Prime, Amazon DVD Rental (in the UK and Germany) and other Amazon.com services. Prior to that Neil was responsible for many of Amazon's most successful product launches, including Music and DVD stores, Marketplace (Amazon's 3rd-party business), Amazon China, and the initial Amazon Web Services product.
Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, Evri was incubated by Vulcan Capital. Vulcan Capital is a leading private investment firm that creates long-term value by applying extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible financial resources to attractive investment opportunities. The firm invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital, as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, business and financial services, technology, life sciences and healthcare. Vulcan Capital was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm serves as the investment arm of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

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