Ark

Ark was a company located in San Francisco, CA, USA, that operated as a search engine specializing in people search. Launched on November 23, 2011, and part of the Y-Combinator W12 batch, Ark focused on the consumer content industry within the United States and Canada. The company developed a modern architecture to comprehensively search and organize over a billion social network profiles. Despite its innovative approach and a team with experience from notable companies like Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium, and Yahoo! Research, Ark is now inactive.