The Gatfol natural language semantic engine – algorithms for changing keyword input into man-to-machine questioning communication – has been in stealth development for over 9 years. With the current announced Beta release, Gatfol technology is now on the verge of providing the promised quantum leap data-access jump that is vital to keep major industries worldwide confidently surfing the information tsunami.
Within two months after announcement of patent filing and initial seed funding, founder and current CEO of Gatfol, Carl Greyling, releases news of the successful outcome of a second round of funding.
As detailed in the Gatfol blog, over twenty industries and Internet fields are now being covered by Gatfol technology, including: Banking, Content Filtering, Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), Image/Video Analysis, Neuro Tech Control, Online Advertising, Online Retail, Robotics, Security, Social Networking and Web Intelligence.
Gatfol attracted strong interest from investors worldwide in the recent funding round, including a funding group in the USA as well as local South African investors.
“We were fortunate in that we had a spread of opportunities to build on our current strong synergy-lined investor pool,” explains Greyling – and added that “It is critical for Gatfol to move within the next three months from the proven prototype technical environment to a full-scale large server outlay, preferably Hadoop cloud based, supported by ‘edge location’ push technology.”
According to Greyling, “With Gatfol Cloud we will be able to provide inline streaming semantic analysis in the millisecond production range, which is critical in helping large sub-second data-critical clients such as banks and search engines. Massive Gatfol Cloud roll-out is therefore where our latest funding will be utilised.”
Current projections are for the Gatfol prototype Beta release to be private for three months, with public Beta to be announced at the end of June 2012. Greyling says, “We would like Gatfol’s first public delivery to be as powerful as possible given available funding and reasonable final launch dates.”
The South African Gatfol web startup founder, Carl Greyling, is a CIA qualified financial analyst (BCom Hons), with a BA degree in Psychology (majoring in Neurophysiology).
As a data analyst and forensic auditor over a career spanning 18 years Greyling developed virtual auditing agents using natural language intelligence and latest neurophysiological programmatic advances to penetrate, roam in and report on patterns in financial data.
For breakthrough work on this Greyling won an EMDA software innovation award in the European Union RDPE programme in 2006. In 2001 Carl Greyling started work with a small team in the UK on natural language search technology and was awarded a USA provisional patent in April 2011 which led to the set up of web startup, Gatfol, in December 2011.
Gatfol for individuals will feature free web browser based technology. Gatfol is NOT a search engine.
Gatfol will appear as a Gatfol spot in all major webbrowsers. Clicking the Gatfolspot will provide seamless optimisation of an entered web query in milliseconds.
See: Gatfol
